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Thacher JD, Oudin A, Flanagan E, Mattisson K, Albin M, Roswall N, Pyko A, Aasvang GM, Andersen ZJ, Borgquist S, Brandt J, Broberg K, Cole-Hunter T, Eriksson C, Eneroth K, Gudjonsdottir H, Helte E, Ketzel M, Lanki T, Lim YH, Leander K, Ljungman P, Manjer J, Männistö S, Raaschou-Nielsen O, Pershagen G, Rizzuto D, Sandsveden M, Selander J, Simonsen MK, Stucki L, Spanne M, Stockfelt L, Tjønneland A, Yli-Tuomi T, Tiittanen P, Valencia VH, Ögren M, Åkesson A, Sørensen M. Exposure to long-term source-specific transportation noise and incident breast cancer: A pooled study of eight Nordic cohorts. Environ Int 2023; 178:108108. [PMID: 37490787 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2023.108108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2023] [Revised: 06/19/2023] [Accepted: 07/20/2023] [Indexed: 07/27/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Environmental noise is an important environmental exposure that can affect health. An association between transportation noise and breast cancer incidence has been suggested, although current evidence is limited. We investigated the pooled association between long-term exposure to transportation noise and breast cancer incidence. METHODS Pooled data from eight Nordic cohorts provided a study population of 111,492 women. Road, railway, and aircraft noise were modelled at residential addresses. Breast cancer incidence (all, estrogen receptor (ER) positive, and ER negative) was derived from cancer registries. Hazard ratios (HR) were estimated using Cox Proportional Hazards Models, adjusting main models for sociodemographic and lifestyle variables together with long-term exposure to air pollution. RESULTS A total of 93,859 women were included in the analyses, of whom 5,875 developed breast cancer. The median (5th-95th percentile) 5-year residential road traffic noise was 54.8 (40.0-67.8) dB Lden, and among those exposed, the median railway noise was 51.0 (41.2-65.8) dB Lden. We observed a pooled HR for breast cancer (95 % confidence interval (CI)) of 1.03 (0.99-1.06) per 10 dB increase in 5-year mean exposure to road traffic noise, and 1.03 (95 % CI: 0.96-1.11) for railway noise, after adjustment for lifestyle and sociodemographic covariates. HRs remained unchanged in analyses with further adjustment for PM2.5 and attenuated when adjusted for NO2 (HRs from 1.02 to 1.01), in analyses using the same sample. For aircraft noise, no association was observed. The associations did not vary by ER status for any noise source. In analyses using <60 dB as a cutoff, we found HRs of 1.08 (0.99-1.18) for road traffic and 1.19 (0.95-1.49) for railway noise. CONCLUSIONS We found weak associations between road and railway noise and breast cancer risk. More high-quality prospective studies are needed, particularly among those exposed to railway and aircraft noise before conclusions regarding noise as a risk factor for breast cancer can be made.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jesse D Thacher
- Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
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- Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Section for Sustainable Health, Umeå University, Sweden
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- Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Centre, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Air Quality and Noise, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark; Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE), University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Health Security, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland; School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland; Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Cardiology, Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Surgery, Skåne University Hospital Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health and Welfare, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Centre, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark; Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Aging Research Centre, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Neurology and the Parker Institute, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Environment Department, City of Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden; Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Centre, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark; Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Health Security, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Health Security, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark; UTE University, Quito, Ecuador
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden; Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Centre, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark; Department of Natural Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Denmark
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Aasvang GM, Stockfelt L, Sørensen M, Turunen AW, Roswall N, Yli-Tuomi T, Ögren M, Lanki T, Selander J, Vincens N, Pyko A, Pershagen G, Sulo G, Bølling AK. Burden of disease due to transportation noise in the Nordic countries. Environ Res 2023; 231:116077. [PMID: 37156356 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.116077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2023] [Revised: 05/04/2023] [Accepted: 05/05/2023] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Environmental noise is of increasing concern for public health. Quantification of associated health impacts is important for regulation and preventive strategies. AIM To estimate the burden of disease (BoD) due to road traffic and railway noise in four Nordic countries and their capitals, in terms of DALYs (Disability-Adjusted Life Years), using comparable input data across countries. METHOD Road traffic and railway noise exposure were obtained from the noise mapping conducted according to the Environmental Noise Directive (END) as well as nationwide noise exposure assessments for Denmark and Norway. Noise annoyance, sleep disturbance and ischaemic heart disease were included as the main health outcomes, using exposure-response functions from the WHO, 2018 systematic review. Additional analyses included stroke and type 2 diabetes. Country-specific DALY rates from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study were used as health input data. RESULTS Comparable exposure data were not available on a national level for the Nordic countries, only for capital cities. The DALY rates for the capitals ranged from 329 to 485 DALYs/100,000 for road traffic noise and 44 to 146 DALY/100,000 for railway noise. Moreover, the DALY estimates for road traffic noise increased with up to 17% upon inclusion of stroke and diabetes. DALY estimates based on nationwide noise data were 51 and 133% higher than the END-based estimates, for Norway and Denmark, respectively. CONCLUSION Further harmonization of noise exposure data is required for between-country comparisons. Moreover, nationwide noise models indicate that DALY estimates based on END considerably underestimate national BoD due to transportation noise. The health-related burden of traffic noise was comparable to that of air pollution, an established risk factor for disease in the GBD framework. Inclusion of environmental noise as a risk factor in the GBD is strongly encouraged.
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- Gunn Marit Aasvang
- Department of Air Quality and Noise, Norwegian Institute of Public Health Oslo, Norway; Centre for Disease Burden, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Bergen, Norway.
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden; Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Natural Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Denmark
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- Department of Health Security, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Health Security, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden; Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Health Security, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland; School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland; Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Air Quality and Noise, Norwegian Institute of Public Health Oslo, Norway; Centre for Disease Burden, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Bergen, Norway
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Roswall N, Thacher JD, Ögren M, Pyko A, Åkesson A, Oudin A, Tjønneland A, Rosengren A, Poulsen AH, Eriksson C, Segersson D, Rizzuto D, Helte E, Andersson EM, Aasvang GM, Gudjonsdottir H, Khan J, Selander J, Christensen JH, Brandt J, Leander K, Mattisson K, Eneroth K, Stucki L, Barregard L, Stockfelt L, Albin M, Simonsen MK, Spanne M, Jousilahti P, Tiittanen P, Molnàr P, Ljungman PLS, Yli-Tuomi T, Cole-Hunter T, Lanki T, Hvidtfeldt UA, Lim YH, Andersen ZJ, Pershagen G, Sørensen M. Long-term exposure to traffic noise and risk of incident colon cancer: A pooled study of eleven Nordic cohorts. Environ Res 2023; 224:115454. [PMID: 36764429 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.115454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2023] [Revised: 01/31/2023] [Accepted: 02/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
Abstract
Background Colon cancer incidence is rising globally, and factors pertaining to urbanization have been proposed involved in this development. Traffic noise may increase colon cancer risk by causing sleep disturbance and stress, thereby inducing known colon cancer risk-factors, e.g. obesity, diabetes, physical inactivity, and alcohol consumption, but few studies have examined this. Objectives The objective of this study was to investigate the association between traffic noise and colon cancer (all, proximal, distal) in a pooled population of 11 Nordic cohorts, totaling 155,203 persons. Methods We identified residential address history and estimated road, railway, and aircraft noise, as well as air pollution, for all addresses, using similar exposure models across cohorts. Colon cancer cases were identified through national registries. We analyzed data using Cox Proportional Hazards Models, adjusting main models for harmonized sociodemographic and lifestyle data. Results During follow-up (median 18.8 years), 2757 colon cancer cases developed. We found a hazard ratio (HR) of 1.05 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.99-1.10) per 10-dB higher 5-year mean time-weighted road traffic noise. In sub-type analyses, the association seemed confined to distal colon cancer: HR 1.06 (95% CI: 0.98-1.14). Railway and aircraft noise was not associated with colon cancer, albeit there was some indication in sub-type analyses that railway noise may also be associated with distal colon cancer. In interaction-analyses, the association between road traffic noise and colon cancer was strongest among obese persons and those with high NO2-exposure. Discussion A prominent study strength is the large population with harmonized data across eleven cohorts, and the complete address-history during follow-up. However, each cohort estimated noise independently, and only at the most exposed façade, which may introduce exposure misclassification. Despite this, the results of this pooled study suggest that traffic noise may be a risk factor for colon cancer, especially of distal origin.
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- Nina Roswall
- Danish Cancer Society Research Centre, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Centre, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark; Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden; Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Division of Sustainable Health, Umeå University, Sweden
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Centre, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark; Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Region Västra Götaland, Department of Medicine Geriatrics and Emergency Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital Östra Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Centre, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden
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- Aging Research Centre, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; Stockholm Gerontology Research Centre, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden; Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Air Quality and Noise, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark; Danish Big Data Centre for Environment and Health (BERTHA), Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden; Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden; Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Neurology and the Parker Institute, Frederiksberg Hospital, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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- Environment Department, City of Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health and Welfare, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Health Security, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden; Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Cardiology, Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Health Security, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Health Security, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland; School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland; Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Centre, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Centre, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark; Department of Natural Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Denmark.
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Roswall N, Poulsen AH, Hvidtfeldt UA, Hendriksen PF, Boll K, Halkjær J, Ketzel M, Brandt J, Frohn LM, Christensen JH, Im U, Sørensen M, Raaschou-Nielsen O. Exposure to ambient air pollution and lipid levels and blood pressure in an adult, Danish cohort. Environ Res 2023; 220:115179. [PMID: 36584852 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.115179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2022] [Revised: 12/16/2022] [Accepted: 12/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Air pollution is a well-recognized risk factor for cardiovascular disease. However, the mechanistic pathways underlying the association are not completely understood. Hence, further studies are required to shed light on potential mechanisms, through which air pollution may affect the development from subclinical to clinical cardiovascular disease. OBJECTIVES To investigate associations between short-term exposure to air pollution and high-density lipoprotein (HDL), non-high density lipoprotein (non-HDL), systolic and diastolic blood pressure. METHODS The study was conducted among 32,851 Danes from the Diet, Cancer and Health - Next Generations cohort, who had a blood sample taken and blood pressure measured. We measured HDL and non-HDL in the blood samples. We modelled exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5), ultrafine particles (UFP), elemental carbon (EC) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in time-windows from 24 h up to 90 days before blood sampling. Pollutants were modelled as total air pollution from all sources, and apportioned into contributions from non-traffic and traffic sources. We analyzed data using linear and logistic regression, with adjustment for socio-economic and lifestyle factors. RESULTS Air pollution exposure over 24 h to 30 days was generally adversely associated with lipid profile and blood pressure, e.g. for 30-day UFP-exposure, adjusted β-estimates were: -0.025 (-0.043; -0.006) for HDL, 0.086 (0.042; 0.130) for non-HDL, 2.45 (1.70; 3.11) for systolic and 1.56 (1.07; 20.4) for diastolic blood pressure, per 10,000 particles/cm3. The strongest associations were found for the non-traffic components of air pollution, and among those who were overweight/obese. DISCUSSION In this large study of air pollution and lipid levels and blood pressure, we found that 24-h to 30-day PM2.5, UFP, EC and NO2 concentrations were generally adversely associated with lipid profile and blood pressure, two important cardiovascular risk factors. The study suggests potential pathways, through which air pollution could affect the development of cardiovascular disease.
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- Nina Roswall
- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark; Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark; IClimate - Interdisciplinary Centre for Climate Change, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark; IClimate - Interdisciplinary Centre for Climate Change, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Natural Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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Pyko A, Roswall N, Ögren M, Oudin A, Rosengren A, Eriksson C, Segersson D, Rizzuto D, Andersson EM, Aasvang GM, Engström G, Gudjonsdottir H, Jørgensen JT, Selander J, Christensen JH, Brandt J, Leander K, Overvad K, Eneroth K, Mattisson K, Barregard L, Stockfelt L, Albin M, Simonsen MK, Tiittanen P, Molnar P, Ljungman P, Solvang Jensen S, Gustafsson S, Lanki T, Lim YH, Andersen ZJ, Sørensen M, Pershagen G. Long-Term Exposure to Transportation Noise and Ischemic Heart Disease: A Pooled Analysis of Nine Scandinavian Cohorts. Environ Health Perspect 2023; 131:17003. [PMID: 36607286 PMCID: PMC9819217 DOI: 10.1289/ehp10745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2021] [Revised: 12/09/2022] [Accepted: 12/09/2022] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Transportation noise may induce cardiovascular disease, but the public health implications are unclear. OBJECTIVES The study aimed to assess exposure-response relationships for different transportation noise sources and ischemic heart disease (IHD), including subtypes. METHODS Pooled analyses were performed of nine cohorts from Denmark and Sweden, together including 132,801 subjects. Time-weighted long-term exposure to road, railway, and aircraft noise, as well as air pollution, was estimated based on residential histories. Hazard ratios (HRs) were calculated using Cox proportional hazards models following adjustment for lifestyle and socioeconomic risk factors. RESULTS A total of 22,459 incident cases of IHD were identified during follow-up from national patient and mortality registers, including 7,682 cases of myocardial infarction. The adjusted HR for IHD was 1.03 [95% confidence interval (CI) 1.00, 1.05] per 10 dB Lden for both road and railway noise exposure during 5 y prior to the event. Higher risks were indicated for IHD excluding angina pectoris cases, with HRs of 1.06 (95% CI: 1.03, 1.08) and 1.05 (95% CI: 1.01, 1.08) per 10 dB Lden for road and railway noise, respectively. Corresponding HRs for myocardial infarction were 1.02 (95% CI: 0.99, 1.05) and 1.04 (95% CI: 0.99, 1.08). Increased risks were observed for aircraft noise but without clear exposure-response relations. A threshold at around 55 dB Lden was suggested in the exposure-response relation for road traffic noise and IHD. DISCUSSION Exposure to road, railway, and aircraft noise in the prior 5 y was associated with an increased risk of IHD, particularly after exclusion of angina pectoris cases, which are less well identified in the registries. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP10745.
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- Andrei Pyko
- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Planetary Health, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Sustainable Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Sweden
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- Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Region Västra Götaland, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden
- Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Aging Research Center, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Stockholm Gerontology Research Center, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Environmental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Clinical Science, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
- iClimate – Interdisciplinary Centre for Climate Change, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Cardiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
- Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Neurology, The Parker Institute, Frederiksberg Hospital, Capital Region, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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- Department of Health Security, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Kuopio, Finland
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- Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Cardiology, Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Health Security, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Kuopio, Finland
- School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Natural Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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Thacher JD, Roswall N, Lissåker C, Aasvang GM, Albin M, Andersson EM, Engström G, Eriksson C, Hvidtfeldt UA, Ketzel M, Khan J, Lanki T, Ljungman PLS, Mattisson K, Molnar P, Raaschou-Nielsen O, Oudin A, Overvad K, Petersen SB, Pershagen G, Poulsen AH, Pyko A, Rizzuto D, Rosengren A, Schioler L, Sjöström M, Stockfelt L, Tiittanen P, Sallsten G, Ögren M, Selander J, Sorensen M. Occupational noise exposure and risk of incident stroke: a pooled study of five Scandinavian cohorts. Occup Environ Med 2022; 79:oemed-2021-108053. [PMID: 35450950 PMCID: PMC9453564 DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2021-108053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2021] [Accepted: 03/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
Abstract
OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between occupational noise exposure and stroke incidence in a pooled study of five Scandinavian cohorts (NordSOUND). METHODS We pooled and harmonised data from five Scandinavian cohorts resulting in 78 389 participants. We obtained job data from national registries or questionnaires and recoded these to match a job-exposure matrix developed in Sweden, which specified the annual average daily noise exposure in five exposure classes (LAeq8h): <70, 70-74, 75-79, 80-84, ≥85 dB(A). We identified residential address history and estimated 1-year average road traffic noise at baseline. Using national patient and mortality registers, we identified 7777 stroke cases with a median follow-up of 20.2 years. Analyses were conducted using Cox proportional hazards models adjusting for individual and area-level potential confounders. RESULTS Exposure to occupational noise at baseline was not associated with overall stroke in the fully adjusted models. For ischaemic stroke, occupational noise was associated with HRs (95% CI) of 1.08 (0.98 to 1.20), 1.09 (0.97 to 1.24) and 1.06 (0.92 to 1.21) in the 75-79, 80-84 and ≥85 dB(A) exposure groups, compared with <70 dB(A), respectively. In subanalyses using time-varying occupational noise exposure, we observed an indication of higher stroke risk among the most exposed (≥85 dB(A)), particularly when restricting analyses to people exposed to occupational noise within the last year (HR: 1.27; 95% CI: 0.99 to 1.63). CONCLUSIONS We found no association between occupational noise and risk of overall stroke after adjustment for confounders. However, the non-significantly increased risk of ischaemic stroke warrants further investigation.
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- Jesse D Thacher
- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
- Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
- Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE), University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
- Danish Big Data Centre for Environment and Health (BERTHA), Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Health Security, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Kuopio, Finland
- School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Cardiology, Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Sustainable Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Aging Research Centre, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Stockholm Gerontology Research Centre, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Sahlgrenska Cademy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Region Västra Götaland, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Health Security, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Kuopio, Finland
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- Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Natural Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
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Sears CG, Eliot M, Raaschou-Nielsen O, Poulsen AH, Harrington JM, Howe CJ, James KA, Roswall N, Overvad K, Tjønneland A, Meliker J, Wellenius GA. Urinary Cadmium and Incident Heart Failure: A Case-Cohort Analysis Among Never-Smokers in Denmark. Epidemiology 2022; 33:185-192. [PMID: 34860726 PMCID: PMC8810592 DOI: 10.1097/ede.0000000000001446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Epidemiologic studies suggest cadmium exposure is associated with cardiovascular disease risk, including heart failure. However, prior findings may be influenced by tobacco smoking, a dominant source of cadmium exposure and risk factor for heart failure. The present study leverages up to 20 years of follow-up in the Danish Diet, Cancer and Health cohort to examine the relationship between urinary cadmium and incident heart failure among people who never smoked. METHODS Between 1993 and 1997, 19,394 never-smoking participants (ages 50-64 years) enrolled and provided a urine sample. From this sample, we randomly selected a subcohort of 600 men and 600 women and identified 958 incident heart failure cases occurring between baseline and 2015. Using a case-cohort approach, we estimated adjusted hazard ratios (aHR) for heart failure in Cox proportional hazards models with age as the time scale. RESULTS Participants had relatively low concentrations of urinary cadmium, as expected for never smokers (median = 0.20; 25th, 75th = 0.13, 0.32 μg cadmium/g creatinine). In adjusted models, we found that higher urinary cadmium was associated with a higher rate of incident heart failure overall (aHR = 1.1 per interquartile range difference [95% CI = 1.0, 1.2). In sex-stratified analyses, the association seemed restricted to men (aHR = 1.5 [95% CI = 1.2, 1.9]). CONCLUSIONS In this cohort of people who never smoked tobacco, environmental cadmium was positively associated with incident heart failure, especially among men.
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- Clara G. Sears
- Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of
Public Health, Providence, RI, USA
- Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute, Division of
Environmental Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville,
Louisville, KY, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of
Public Health, Providence, RI, USA
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen,
Denmark
- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University,
Roskilde, Denmark
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- Center for Analytical Science, Research Triangle Institute,
Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of
Public Health, Providence, RI, USA
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- Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado
Denver, Denver, CO, USA
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen,
Denmark
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- Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus,
Denmark
- Department of Cardiology, Aalborg University Hospital,
Aalborg, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen,
Denmark
- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen,
Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Program in Public Health, Department of Family,
Population, & Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University, NY, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of
Public Health, Providence, RI, USA
- Department of Environmental Health, Boston University,
Boston, MA, USA
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Roswall N, Pyko A, Ögren M, Oudin A, Rosengren A, Lager A, Poulsen AH, Eriksson C, Segersson D, Rizzuto D, Andersson EM, Aasvang GM, Engström G, Jørgensen JT, Selander J, Christensen JH, Thacher J, Leander K, Overvad K, Eneroth K, Mattisson K, Barregård L, Stockfelt L, Albin M, Ketzel M, Simonsen MK, Spanne M, Raaschou-Nielsen O, Magnusson PK, Tiittanen P, Molnar P, Ljungman P, Lanki T, Lim YH, Andersen ZJ, Pershagen G, Sørensen M. Long-Term Exposure to Transportation Noise and Risk of Incident Stroke: A Pooled Study of Nine Scandinavian Cohorts. Environ Health Perspect 2021; 129:107002. [PMID: 34605674 PMCID: PMC8489401 DOI: 10.1289/ehp8949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Transportation noise is increasingly acknowledged as a cardiovascular risk factor, but the evidence base for an association with stroke is sparse. OBJECTIVE We aimed to investigate the association between transportation noise and stroke incidence in a large Scandinavian population. METHODS We harmonized and pooled data from nine Scandinavian cohorts (seven Swedish, two Danish), totaling 135,951 participants. We identified residential address history and estimated road, railway, and aircraft noise for all addresses. Information on stroke incidence was acquired through linkage to national patient and mortality registries. We analyzed data using Cox proportional hazards models, including socioeconomic and lifestyle confounders, and air pollution. RESULTS During follow-up (median=19.5y), 11,056 stroke cases were identified. Road traffic noise (Lden) was associated with risk of stroke, with a hazard ratio (HR) of 1.06 [95% confidence interval (CI): 1.03, 1.08] per 10-dB higher 5-y mean time-weighted exposure in analyses adjusted for individual- and area-level socioeconomic covariates. The association was approximately linear and persisted after adjustment for air pollution [particulate matter (PM) with an aerodynamic diameter of ≤2.5μm (PM2.5) and NO2]. Stroke was associated with moderate levels of 5-y aircraft noise exposure (40-50 vs. ≤40 dB) (HR=1.12; 95% CI: 0.99, 1.27), but not with higher exposure (≥50 dB, HR=0.94; 95% CI: 0.79, 1.11). Railway noise was not associated with stroke. DISCUSSION In this pooled study, road traffic noise was associated with a higher risk of stroke. This finding supports road traffic noise as an important cardiovascular risk factor that should be included when estimating the burden of disease due to traffic noise. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP8949.
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- Nina Roswall
- Danish Cancer Society Research Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Environment Society and Health, Lund University, Sweden
- Sustainable Health, Umeå University, Sweden
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- Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Region Västra Götaland, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden
- Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Aging Research Center, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Stockholm Gerontology Research Center, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Environmental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Clinical Science, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Cardiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
- Global Centre for Clean Air Research, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
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- Environment Department, City of Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
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- Department of Health Security, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland
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- Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Cardiology, Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Health Security, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland
- School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Public Health, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Natural Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
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Poulsen AH, Sears CG, Harrington J, Howe CJ, James KA, Roswall N, Overvad K, Tjønneland A, Wellenius GA, Meliker J, Raaschou-Nielsen O. Urinary cadmium and stroke - a case-cohort study in Danish never-smokers. Environ Res 2021; 200:111394. [PMID: 34062200 PMCID: PMC8403651 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2021] [Revised: 05/21/2021] [Accepted: 05/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND and Purpose: Cadmium has been associated with risk of cardiovascular events, including stroke. Human cadmium exposure occurs primarily through diet and tobacco smoke. Recent cohort studies have found an association with stroke, but residual confounding from smoking, could not be ruled out. We therefore conducted a case-cohort study to evaluate whether cadmium is associated with stroke in never-smokers. METHODS The Danish Diet Cancer and Health cohort consists of Danes 50-64 years old, recruited in 1993-1997. From never-smoking cohort members without previous cancer or stroke we sampled a sub-cohort of 1200 persons. We also identified all (n = 534) cases in the cohort with a validated stroke diagnosis between baseline and 2009. We quantified cadmium and creatinine concentrations from baseline urine samples and used cadmium per creatinine as our main exposure metric. We used Cox proportional hazards models to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) with age as time scale and adjusting for BMI, education and urinary cotinine with and without stratification by sex. RESULTS The median urinary cadmium concentration was 0.21 μg cadmium/g creatinine in cases and 0.19 μg/g in the sub-cohort. The majority (83%) of stroke cases were diagnosed with ischemic stroke. The HR for stroke in the highest quartile of exposure (median 0.44 μg/g creatinine) was 1.11 (95% CI: 0.79-1.54) compared with the lowest quartile (median 0.10 μg/g creatinine). The HR per inter quartile range (IQR, 0.19 μg/g creatinine) was 1.02 (95% CI: 0.92-1.12). Among men, the HR per IQR higher levels of cadmium (0.16 μg/g creatinine) was 1.18 (95% CI: 0.92-1.52), and 1.00 (95% CI: 0.89-1.12) among women. Adjusting for creatinine or using osmolality instead of creatinine standardization generally attenuated observed relationships. CONCLUSIONS Our results do not support that low levels of cadmium exposure among never-smokers are strongly associated with risk of stroke, although results varied somewhat by sex and method of accounting for urinary dilution.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI, USA
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- Center for Analytical Science, Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus, USA
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Department of Cardiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Public Health University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI, USA; Department of Environmental Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Program in Public Health, Department of Family, Population, & Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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Sears CG, Poulsen AH, Eliot M, Howe CJ, James KA, Harrington JM, Roswall N, Overvad K, Tjønneland A, Raaschou-Nielsen O, Wellenius GA, Meliker J. Urine cadmium and acute myocardial infarction among never smokers in the Danish Diet, Cancer and Health cohort. Environ Int 2021; 150:106428. [PMID: 33571817 PMCID: PMC7940585 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2021.106428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2020] [Revised: 01/25/2021] [Accepted: 01/27/2021] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
Abstract
Cadmium exposure has been associated with cardiovascular disease. Cigarette smoking is a key source of cadmium exposure and thus a potential confounder in observational studies of environmental cadmium and cardiovascular disease that include tobacco smokers. We leveraged up to 20 years of follow-up in the Danish Diet, Cancer and Health cohort to test the hypothesis that cadmium exposure is associated with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) among people who never smoked. Between 1993 and 1997, 19,394 never-smoking participants (ages 50-64 years) were enrolled and provided a urine sample. From this sample, we randomly selected a subcohort of 600 males and 600 females. We identified 809 AMI cases occurring between baseline and the end of 2015 using the Danish National Patient Registry. We quantified cadmium, creatinine, and osmolality in baseline urine samples. Using an unweighted case-cohort approach, we estimated adjusted hazard ratios (aHR) for AMI in Cox proportional hazards models with age as the time axis. Participants had relatively low concentrations of urinary cadmium, as expected for never smokers (median = 0.20; 25th, 75th = 0.13, 0.32 μg cadmium/g creatinine). We did not find strong evidence to support an association between higher urinary cadmium and AMI when comparing the highest versus lowest quartile (aHR = 1.16; 95% CI: 0.86 - 1.56) and per IQR increment in cadmium concentration (aHR = 1.02; 95% CI: 0.93 - 1.12). Results were not materially different across strata defined by sex. Results were generally similar using creatinine or osmolality to account for differences in urine dilution. While cadmium exposure has been identified as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, we did not find strong evidence that urinary cadmium at relatively low-levels is associated with AMI among people who have never smoked.
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- Clara G Sears
- Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI, USA.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus, CO, USA
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- Center for Analytical Science, Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Department of Cardiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI, USA; Department of Environmental Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Program in Public Health, Department of Family, Population, & Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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Roswall N, Poulsen AH, Thacher JD, Hvidtfeldt UA, Raaschou-Nielsen O, Jensen SS, Overvad K, Tjønneland A, Sørensen M. Nighttime road traffic noise exposure at the least and most exposed façades and sleep medication prescription redemption-a Danish cohort study. Sleep 2021; 43:5739759. [PMID: 32083664 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsaa029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2019] [Revised: 01/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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STUDY OBJECTIVES Traffic noise has been associated with poor sleep quality and short sleep duration. This study investigates the association between nighttime road traffic noise at the least and most exposed façades of the residence and redemption of sleep medication. METHODS In a cohort of 44,438 Danes, aged 50-64 at baseline (1993-1997), we identified all addresses from 1987 to 2015 from a national registry and calculated nighttime road traffic noise at the most and least exposed façades. Using Cox Proportional Hazard Models we investigated the association between residential traffic noise over 1, 5, and 10 years before redemption of the first sleep medication prescription in the Danish National Prescription Registry. During a median follow-up time of 18.5 years, 13,114 persons redeemed a prescription. RESULTS We found that 10-year average nighttime exposure to road traffic noise at the most exposed façade was associated with a hazard ratio (HR) of 1.05, 95% confidence interval (CI) (1.00 to 1.10) for Ln greater than 55 as compared to not more than 45 dB, which when stratified by sex was confined to men (HR 1.16, 95% CI 1.08 to 1.25). For the least exposed façade the HR for Ln >45 vs ≤35 dB was 1.00, 95% CI (0.95 to 1.05). For the most exposed façade, the overall association was strongest in smokers and physically inactive. CONCLUSIONS Long-term residential nighttime noise exposure at the most exposed façade may be associated with a higher likelihood of redeeming prescriptions for sleep medication, especially among men, smokers, and physically inactive.
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- Nina Roswall
- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Cardiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark.,Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Natural Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
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Sørensen M, Poulsen AH, Kroman N, Hvidtfeldt UA, Thacher JD, Roswall N, Brandt J, Frohn LM, Jensen SS, Levin G, Raaschou-Nielsen O. Road and railway noise and risk for breast cancer: A nationwide study covering Denmark. Environ Res 2021; 195:110739. [PMID: 33460635 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.110739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2020] [Revised: 01/07/2021] [Accepted: 01/07/2021] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Previous studies have suggested that transportation noise may increase risk for breast cancer, but existing literature is scarce and inconclusive. We aimed to investigate associations between road traffic and railway noise and risk for breast cancer across the entire Danish female population. METHODS For all 2.8 million residential addresses across Denmark, we modelled road and railway noise at the most and least exposed façades for the period 1990-2017. We calculated 10-year time-weighted mean noise exposure for 1.8 million women aged >35 years, of whom 66,006 developed breast cancer during follow-up from 2000 to 2017. We analysed data using Cox proportional hazards models with noise exposure included as 10-year running means and adjusted for a number of individual and area-level socioeconomic co-variates and air pollution with fine particles estimated for all addresses. RESULTS For exposures at the least exposed façade, we found that a 10 dB increase in 10-year time-weighted noise was associated with incidence rate ratios (IRRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for breast cancer of 1.032 (1.019-1.046) for road noise and 1.023 (0.993-1.053) for railway noise. For exposures at the most exposed façade, the IRRs (95% CIs) were 1.012 (1.002-1.022) for road noise and 1.020 (1.001-1.039) for railway noise. Associations were strongest among women with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 negative breast cancer. CONCLUSIONS Road traffic and railway noise were associated with higher risk for breast cancer, especially noise at the least exposed façade, which is a proxy for noise exposure during sleep.
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- Mette Sørensen
- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Natural Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
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- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Breast Surgery, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark; IClimate - Aarhus University Interdisciplinary Centre for Climate Change, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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Puett RC, Poulsen AH, Taj T, Ketzel M, Geels C, Brandt J, Christensen JH, Sørensen M, Roswall N, Hvidtfeldt U, Raaschou-Nielsen O. Relationship of leukaemias with long-term ambient air pollution exposures in the adult Danish population. Br J Cancer 2020; 123:1818-1824. [PMID: 32939055 PMCID: PMC7722932 DOI: 10.1038/s41416-020-01058-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2020] [Revised: 08/11/2020] [Accepted: 08/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Background Few population-based epidemiological studies of adults have examined the relationship between air pollution and leukaemias. Methods Using Danish National Cancer Registry data and Danish DEHM-UBM-AirGIS system-modelled air pollution exposures, we examined whether particulate matter (PM2.5), black carbon (BC), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and ozone (O3) averaged over 1, 5 or 10 years were associated with adult leukaemia in general or by subtype. In all, 14,986 adult cases diagnosed 1989–2014 and 51,624 age, sex and time-matched controls were included. Separate conditional logistic regression models, adjusted for socio-demographic factors, assessed exposure to each pollutant with leukaemias. Results Fully adjusted models showed a higher risk of leukaemia with higher 1-, 5- and 10-year-average exposures to PM2.5 prior to diagnosis (e.g. OR per 10 µg/m3 for 10-year average: 1.17, 95% CI: 1.03, 1.32), and a positive relationship with 1-year average BC. Results were driven by participants 70 years and older (OR per 10 µg/m3 for 10-year average: 1.35, 95% CI: 1.15–1.58). Null findings for younger participants. Higher 1-year average PM2.5 exposures were associated with higher risks for acute myeloid and chronic lymphoblastic leukaemia. Conclusion Among older adults, higher risk for leukaemia was associated with higher residential PM2.5 concentrations averaged over 1, 5 and 10 years prior to diagnosis.
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- Robin C Puett
- Institute for Applied Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. .,Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, P.O. Box. 358, DK-4000, Roskilde, Denmark.,Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE), University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, UK
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, P.O. Box. 358, DK-4000, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, P.O. Box. 358, DK-4000, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, P.O. Box. 358, DK-4000, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Natural Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, P.O. Box. 358, DK-4000, Roskilde, Denmark
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Lujan-Barroso L, Botteri E, Caini S, Ljungberg B, Roswall N, Tjønneland A, Bueno-de-Mesquita B, Gram IT, Tumino R, Kiemeney LA, Liedberg F, Stocks T, Gunter MJ, Murphy N, Cervenka I, Fournier A, Kvaskoff M, Häggström C, Overvad K, Lund E, Waaseth M, Fortner RT, Kühn T, Menéndez V, Sánchez MJ, Santiuste C, Perez-Cornago A, Zamora-Ros R, Cross AJ, Trichopoulou A, Karakatsani A, Peppa E, Palli D, Krogh V, Sciannameo V, Mattiello A, Panico S, van Gils CH, Onland-Moret NC, Barricarte A, Amiano P, Khaw KT, Boeing H, Weiderpass E, Duell EJ. Menstrual Factors, Reproductive History, Hormone Use, and Urothelial Carcinoma Risk: A Prospective Study in the EPIC Cohort. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2020; 29:1654-1664. [PMID: 32467345 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-20-0184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2020] [Revised: 04/07/2020] [Accepted: 05/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Urothelial carcinoma is the predominant (95%) bladder cancer subtype in industrialized nations. Animal and epidemiologic human studies suggest that hormonal factors may influence urothelial carcinoma risk. METHODS We used an analytic cohort of 333,919 women from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition Cohort. Associations between hormonal factors and incident urothelial carcinoma (overall and by tumor grade, tumor aggressiveness, and non-muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma) risk were evaluated using Cox proportional hazards models. RESULTS During a mean of 15 years of follow-up, 529 women developed urothelial carcinoma. In a model including number of full-term pregnancies (FTP), menopausal status, and menopausal hormone therapy (MHT), number of FTP was inversely associated with urothelial carcinoma risk (HR≥5vs1 = 0.48; 0.25-0.90; P trend in parous women = 0.010) and MHT use (compared with nonuse) was positively associated with urothelial carcinoma risk (HR = 1.27; 1.03-1.57), but no dose response by years of MHT use was observed. No modification of HRs by smoking status was observed. Finally, sensitivity analyses in never smokers showed similar HR patterns for the number of FTP, while no association between MHT use and urothelial carcinoma risk was observed. Association between MHT use and urothelial carcinoma risk remained significant only in current smokers. No heterogeneity of the risk estimations in the final model was observed by tumor aggressiveness or by tumor grade. A positive association between MTH use and non-muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma risk was observed. CONCLUSIONS Our results support that increasing the number of FTP may reduce urothelial carcinoma risk. IMPACT More detailed studies on parity are needed to understand the possible effects of perinatal hormone changes in urothelial cells.
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- Leila Lujan-Barroso
- Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), Gran Via de L'Hospitalet 199-203, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.
- Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute - IDIBELL, Gran Via de L'Hospitalet 199-203, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Nursing of Public Health, Mental Health and Maternity and Child Health School of Nursing, Universitat de Barcelona, Carrer de la Feixa Llarga s/n, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo University Hospital, Ullernchausseen 64, Oslo, Norway
- Norwegian National Advisory Unit for Women's Health, Women's Clinic, Oslo University Hospital, Sognsvannsveien 20, Oslo, Norway
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- Cancer Risk Factors and Lifestyle Epidemiology Unit, Institute for Cancer Research, Prevention and Clinical Network (ISPRO), Via Cosimo il Vecchio 2, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Urology and Andrology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department for Determinants of Chronic Diseases (DCD), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands
- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The School of Public Health, Imperial College London, St Mary's Campus, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Social & Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Pantai Valley, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Cancer Registry and Histopathology, "Civic -M.P. Arezzo" Hospital, ASP Ragusa, Ragusa, Italy
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Urology, Skåne University Hospital and Institution of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Jan Waldenströms gata 5, Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Barngatan 4, Lund, Sweden
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer/World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer/World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Inserm U1018, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP) "Health across Generations" Team, Gustave Roussy 114 rue Edouard Vaillant, Villejuif, France
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- Inserm U1018, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP) "Health across Generations" Team, Gustave Roussy 114 rue Edouard Vaillant, Villejuif, France
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- Inserm U1018, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP) "Health across Generations" Team, Gustave Roussy 114 rue Edouard Vaillant, Villejuif, France
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- Department of Biobank Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Akademiska sjukhuset entrence 70, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health, Section for Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DFKZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DFKZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Public Health Directorate, C/Ciriaco Miguel Virgil 9, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
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- Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública (EASP), Cuesta del Observatorio 4, Granada, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Av. de las Fuerzas Armadas 2, Granada, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Av. Monforte de Lemos 3-5, Madrid, Spain
- Universidad de Granada, Av. del Hospicio 1, Granada, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Av. Monforte de Lemos 3-5, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Epidemiology, Murcia Regional Health Council, IMIB-Arrixaca, Ronda de Levante 11, Murcia, Spain
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), Gran Via de L'Hospitalet 199-203, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute - IDIBELL, Gran Via de L'Hospitalet 199-203, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
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- Hellenic Health Foundation, Kaisareias 13 & Alexandroupoleos, Athens, Greece
- 2nd Pulmonary Medicine Department, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "ATTIKON" University Hospital, Haidari, Greece
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- Hellenic Health Foundation, Kaisareias 13 & Alexandroupoleos, Athens, Greece
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- Cancer Risk Factors and Lifestyle Epidemiology Unit, Institute for Cancer Research, Prevention and Clinical Network (ISPRO), Via Cosimo il Vecchio 2, Florence, Italy
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- Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumouri, Via Venezian 1, Milano, Italy
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- Unit of Epidemiology, Regional Health Service ASL TO3, Grugliasco (Turin), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Chirurgia, Federico II University, Via Pansini 5, Naples, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Chirurgia, Federico II University, Via Pansini 5, Naples, Italy
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Av. Monforte de Lemos 3-5, Madrid, Spain
- Navarra Public Health Institute, C/Leyre 15, Pamplona, Spain
- Navarra Institute for Health Research (IdiSNA), C/Irunlarrea 3, Pamplona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Av. Monforte de Lemos 3-5, Madrid, Spain
- Ministry of Health of the Basque Government, Public Health Division of Gipuzkoa, Biodonostia Research Institute, Paseo Doctor Begiristain s/N, 20014 Donostia/Gipuzkoa, Gipuzkoa, Spain
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE), Arthur-Scheunert-Allee 114 - 116, Nuthetal, Germany
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer/World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Unit of Biomarkers and Susceptibility, Oncology Data Analytics Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), Gran Via de L'Hospitalet 199-203, 08908, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- ONCOBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Gran Via de L'Hospitalet 199-203, 08908, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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Thacher JD, Poulsen AH, Roswall N, Hvidtfeldt U, Raaschou-Nielsen O, Jensen SS, Ketzel M, Brandt J, Overvad K, Tjønneland A, Münzel T, Sørensen M. Road Traffic Noise Exposure and Filled Prescriptions for Antihypertensive Medication: A Danish Cohort Study. Environ Health Perspect 2020; 128:57004. [PMID: 32438890 PMCID: PMC7263450 DOI: 10.1289/ehp6273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Epidemiological research on effects of transportation noise on incident hypertension is inconsistent. OBJECTIVES We aimed to investigate whether residential road traffic noise increases the risk for hypertension. METHODS In a population-based cohort of 57,053 individuals 50-64 years of age at enrollment, we identified 21,241 individuals who fulfilled our case definition of filling ≥2 prescriptions and ≥180 defined daily doses of antihypertensive drugs (AHTs) within a year, during a mean follow-up time of 14.0 y. Residential addresses from 1987 to 2016 were obtained from national registers, and road traffic noise at the most exposed façade as well as the least exposed façade was modeled for all addresses. Analyses were conducted using Cox proportional hazards models. RESULTS We found no associations between the 10-y mean exposure to road traffic noise and filled prescriptions for AHTs, with incidence rate ratios (IRRs) of 0.999 [95% confidence intervals (CI): 0.980, 1.019)] per 10-dB increase in road traffic noise at the most exposed façade and of 1.001 (95% CI: 0.977, 1.026) at the least exposed façade. Interaction analyses suggested an association with road traffic noise at the least exposed façade among subpopulations of current smokers and obese individuals. CONCLUSION The present study does not support an association between road traffic noise and filled prescriptions for AHTs. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP6273.
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- Jesse D. Thacher
- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
- Global Centre for Clean Air Research, University of Surrey, UK
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Cardiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
- Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Cardiology, Cardiology I, University Medical Center Mainz of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Natural Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
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Thacher JD, Poulsen AH, Raaschou-Nielsen O, Jensen A, Hillig K, Roswall N, Hvidtfeldt U, Jensen SS, Levin G, Valencia VH, Sørensen M. High-resolution assessment of road traffic noise exposure in Denmark. Environ Res 2020; 182:109051. [PMID: 31896468 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2019.109051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2019] [Revised: 11/25/2019] [Accepted: 12/15/2019] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
Abstract
Recent studies show associations between transportation noise and various diseases. However, selection bias remains an inherent limitation in many cohort studies. In this study, we aimed to model road traffic noise exposure across the entire Danish population and investigate its distribution in relation to area-level socioeconomic indicators and green space. Based on the Nordic prediction method, we estimated road traffic noise for all Danish residential addresses, in total 2,761,739 addresses, for the years 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2015 at the most and least exposed façades. Area-level sociodemographic variables encompassing education, income, and unemployment were collected and residential green within a 150 m radius buffer at the address level was estimated using high-resolution national land use classification data. Median levels of noise at both the most and least exposed facades across Denmark increased slightly from 1995 to 2015. Correlations between most and least exposed façades varied based on population density and building type, with the highest correlations between the most and least exposed façades found for semidetached homes and lowest for multistory buildings. Increasing median noise levels were observed across increasing levels of higher education, lower income, and higher unemployment. A decreasing trend in median noise levels with increasing levels of green space was observed. In conclusion, we showed that it is feasible to estimate nationwide, address-specific exposure over a long time-period. Furthermore, the low correlations found between most and least exposed façade for multistory buildings, which characterize metropolitan centers, suggests that the most exposed façade estimation used in most previous studies and predicts exposure at the silent façade relatively poorly.
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- Jesse D Thacher
- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Natural Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
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Vrieling A, Bueno‐De‐Mesquita HB, Ros MM, Kampman E, Aben KK, Büchner FL, Jansen EH, Roswall N, Tjønneland A, Boutron‐Ruault M, Cadeau C, Chang‐Claude J, Kaaks R, Weikert S, Boeing H, Trichopoulou A, Lagiou P, Trichopoulos D, Sieri S, Palli D, Panico S, Peeters PH, Weiderpass E, Skeie G, Jakszyn P, Chirlaque M, Ardanaz E, Sánchez M, Ehrnström R, Malm J, Ljungberg B, Khaw K, Wareham NJ, Brennan P, Johansson M, Riboli E, Kiemeney LA. One-carbon metabolism biomarkers and risk of urothelial cell carcinoma in the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition. Int J Cancer 2019; 145:2349-2359. [PMID: 30694528 PMCID: PMC6899898 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.32165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2018] [Revised: 12/24/2018] [Accepted: 01/04/2019] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Abstract
Published associations between dietary folate and bladder cancer risk are inconsistent. Biomarkers may provide more accurate measures of nutrient status. This nested case-control analysis within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) investigated associations between pre-diagnostic serum folate, homocysteine, vitamins B6 and B12 and the risk of urothelial cell carcinomas of the bladder (UCC). A total of 824 patients with newly diagnosed UCC were matched with 824 cohort members. Serum folate, homocysteine, and vitamins B6 and B12 were measured. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for total, aggressive, and non-aggressive UCC were estimated using conditional logistic regression with adjustment for smoking status, smoking duration and intensity, and other potential confounders. Additionally, statistical interaction with smoking status was assessed. A halving in serum folate concentrations was moderately associated with risk of UCC (OR: 1.18; 95% CI: 0.98-1.43), in particular aggressive UCC (OR: 1.34; 95% CI: 1.02-1.75; p-heterogeneity = 0.19). Compared to never smokers in the highest quartile of folate concentrations, this association seemed only apparent among current smokers in the lowest quartile of folate concentrations (OR: 6.26; 95% CI: 3.62-10.81, p-interaction = 0.07). Dietary folate was not associated with aggressive UCC (OR: 1.26; 95% CI: 0.81-1.95; p-heterogeneity = 0.14). No association was observed between serum homocysteine, vitamins B6 and B12 and risk of UCC. This study suggests that lower serum folate concentrations are associated with increased UCC risk, in particular aggressive UCC. Residual confounding by smoking cannot be ruled out and these findings require confirmation in future studies with multiple measurements.
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- Alina Vrieling
- Radboud University Medical CenterRadboud Institute for Health SciencesNijmegenThe Netherlands
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- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)BilthovenThe Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of MedicineImperial College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
- Department of Gastroenterology and HepatologyUniversity Medical Center UtrechtUtrechtThe Netherlands
- Department of Social & Preventive Medicine, Faculty of MedicineUniversity of MalayaKuala LumpurMalaysia
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- Radboud University Medical CenterRadboud Institute for Health SciencesNijmegenThe Netherlands
- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)BilthovenThe Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical CenterRadboud Institute for Health SciencesNijmegenThe Netherlands
- Division of Human NutritionWageningen UniversityWageningenThe Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical CenterRadboud Institute for Health SciencesNijmegenThe Netherlands
- Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer OrganisationUtrechtThe Netherlands
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- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)BilthovenThe Netherlands
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- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)BilthovenThe Netherlands
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- Danish Cancer Society Research CenterCopenhagenDenmark
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- Inserm, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), U1018, NutritionHormones and Women's Health teamVillejuifFrance
- Université of Paris‐SudVillejuifFrance
- IGRVillejufFrance
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- Inserm, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), U1018, NutritionHormones and Women's Health teamVillejuifFrance
- Université of Paris‐SudVillejuifFrance
- IGRVillejufFrance
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- Division of Cancer EpidemiologyGerman Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)Germany
- Cancer Epidemiology GroupUniversity Medical Centre Hamburg‐Eppendorf, University Cancer Centre Hamburg (UCCH)HamburgGermany
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- Division of Cancer EpidemiologyGerman Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)Germany
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- Department of EpidemiologyGerman Institute of Human NutritionNuthetalGermany
- Department of UrologyVivantes Humboldt HospitalBerlinGermany
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- Department of EpidemiologyGerman Institute of Human NutritionNuthetalGermany
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- WHO Collaborating Center for Food and Nutrition Policies, Department of HygieneEpidemiology and Medical Statistics University of Athens Medical SchoolAthensGreece
- Hellenic Health FoundationAthensGreece
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- WHO Collaborating Center for Food and Nutrition Policies, Department of HygieneEpidemiology and Medical Statistics University of Athens Medical SchoolAthensGreece
- Department of EpidemiologyHarvard School of Public HealthBostonMA
- Bureau of Epidemiologic ResearchAcademy of AthensAthensGreece
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- Hellenic Health FoundationAthensGreece
- Department of EpidemiologyHarvard School of Public HealthBostonMA
- Bureau of Epidemiologic ResearchAcademy of AthensAthensGreece
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- Epidemiology and Prevention UnitFondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei TumoriMilanItaly
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- Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology UnitCancer and Prevention Institute (ISPO)FlorenceItaly
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental MedicineFederico II University, Medical SchoolNaplesItaly
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of MedicineImperial College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary CareUniversity Medical Center UtrechtUtrechtThe Netherlands
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- Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health SciencesUniversity of Tromsø, The Artic University of NorwayTromsøNorway
- Department of ResearchCancer Registry of Norway – Institute of Population‐based Cancer ResearchOsloNorway
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and BiostatisticsKarolinska InstitutetStockholmSweden
- Genetic Epidemiology Group, Folkhälsan Research Center and Faculty of MedicineUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
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- Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health SciencesUniversity of Tromsø, The Artic University of NorwayTromsøNorway
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- Unit of Nutrition, Environment and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research ProgrammeCatalan Institute of Oncology (ICO)BarcelonaSpain
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- Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBER de Epidemiologia y Salud Pública)MadridSpain
- Department of Epidemiology, Murcia Health AuthorityIMIB‐Arrixaca. Murcia UniversitySpain
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- Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBER de Epidemiologia y Salud Pública)MadridSpain
- Instituto de Salud Pública de Navarra, IdiSNAPamplonaSpain
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- Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBER de Epidemiologia y Salud Pública)MadridSpain
- Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública. Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADAHospitales Universitarios de Granada/Universidad de GranadaGranadaSpain
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- Laboratory Medicine, Department of PathologySkåne University Hospital MalmöMalmöSweden
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- Department of Translational Medicine, Division of Clinical ChemistryLund UniversityMalmöSweden
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- Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Urology and AndrologyUmeå UniversityUmeåSweden
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- Department of Public Health and Primary CareUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUnited Kingdom
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- MRC Epidemiology UnitUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUnited Kingdom
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- Genetic Epidemiology GroupInternational Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)LyonFrance
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- Genetic Epidemiology GroupInternational Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)LyonFrance
- Department of Biobank ResearchUmeå UniversityUmeåSweden
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of MedicineImperial College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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- Radboud University Medical CenterRadboud Institute for Health SciencesNijmegenThe Netherlands
- Department of UrologyRadboud University Medical CenterNijmegenThe Netherlands
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Lin C, Travis RC, Appleby PN, Tipper S, Weiderpass E, Chang‐Claude J, Gram IT, Kaaks R, Kiemeney LA, Ljungberg B, Tumino R, Tjønneland A, Roswall N, Overvad K, Boutron‐Ruault M, Manciniveri FR, Severi G, Trichopoulou A, Masala G, Sacerdote C, Agnoli C, Panico S, Bueno‐de‐Mesquita B, Peeters PH, Salamanca‐Fernández E, Chirlaque M, Ardanaz E, Dorronsoro M, Menéndez V, Luján‐Barroso L, Liedberg F, Freisling H, Gunter M, Aune D, Cross AJ, Riboli E, Key TJ, Perez‐Cornago A. Pre-diagnostic circulating insulin-like growth factor-I and bladder cancer risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. Int J Cancer 2018; 143:2351-2358. [PMID: 29971779 PMCID: PMC6220964 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.31650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2018] [Revised: 04/06/2018] [Accepted: 05/02/2018] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
Abstract
Previous in vitro and case-control studies have found an association between the insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-axis and bladder cancer risk. Circulating concentrations of IGF-I have also been found to be associated with an increased risk of several cancer types; however, the relationship between pre-diagnostic circulating IGF-I concentrations and bladder cancer has never been studied prospectively. We investigated the association of pre-diagnostic plasma concentrations of IGF-I with risk of overall bladder cancer and urothelial cell carcinoma (UCC) in a case-control study nested within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort. A total of 843 men and women diagnosed with bladder cancer between 1992 and 2005 were matched with 843 controls by recruitment centre, sex, age at recruitment, date of blood collection, duration of follow-up, time of day and fasting status at blood collection using an incidence density sampling protocol. Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated using conditional logistic regression with adjustment for smoking status. No association was found between pre-diagnostic circulating IGF-I concentration and overall bladder cancer risk (adjusted OR for highest versus lowest fourth: 0.91, 95% CI: 0.66-1.24, ptrend = 0.40) or UCC (n of cases = 776; 0.91, 0.65-1.26, ptrend = 0.40). There was no significant evidence of heterogeneity in the association of IGF-I with bladder cancer risk by tumour aggressiveness, sex, smoking status, or by time between blood collection and diagnosis (pheterogeneity > 0.05 for all). This first prospective study indicates no evidence of an association between plasma IGF-I concentrations and bladder cancer risk.
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- Crystal Lin
- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population HealthUniversity of OxfordOxfordUnited Kingdom
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population HealthUniversity of OxfordOxfordUnited Kingdom
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population HealthUniversity of OxfordOxfordUnited Kingdom
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population HealthUniversity of OxfordOxfordUnited Kingdom
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- Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health SciencesUniversity of Tromsø, The Arctic University of NorwayTromsøNorway
- Department of Research, Cancer Registry of NorwayInstitute of Population‐Based Cancer ResearchOsloNorway
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and BiostatisticsKarolinska InstitutetStockholmSweden
- Genetic Epidemiology Group, Folkhälsan Research Center; Faculty of MedicineUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Community MedicineUniversity of Tromsø, The Arctic University of NorwayTromsøNorway
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)HeidelbergGermany
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Department for Health Evidence and Department of UrologyNijmegenThe Netherlands
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- Department of Surgical and Perioperative sciences, Urology and AndrologyUmeå UniversityUmeåSweden
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- Cancer Registry and Histopathology Department"Civic ‐ M. P. Arezzo" HospitalRagusaItaly
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- Danish Cancer Society Research CenterCopenhagen ØDenmark
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- Aarhus UniversityDepartment of Public Health Section for EpidemiologyAarhusDenmark
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- CESP, Faculté de MédecineUVSQ, INSERM, Université Paris‐SaclayVillejuifFrance
- Gustave RoussyVillejuifFrance
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- Cancer Risk Factors and Life‐Style Epidemiology UnitCancer Research and Prevention Institute, ISPOFlorenceItaly
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- Unit of Cancer EpidemiologyCittà della Salute e della Scienza University‐Hospital and Center for Cancer Prevention (CPO)TurinItaly
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- Epidemiology and Prevention UnitFondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei TumoriMilanItaly
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- Dipartimento di Medicine Clinica e ChirurgiaFederico II UniversityNaplesItaly
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- Department for Determinants of Chronic Diseases (DCD)National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)BilthovenThe Netherlands
- Department of Gastroenterology and HepatologyUniversity Medical CentreUtrechtThe Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology and BiostatisticsThe School of Public Health, Imperial College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
- Department of Social & Preventive Medicine, Faculty of MedicineUniversity of MalayaKuala LumpurMalaysia
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary CareUniversity Medical Center UtrechtUtrechtThe Netherlands
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- Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública, Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs, GRANADA. Hospitales Universitarios de Granada/Universidad de GranadaGranadaSpain
- CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health CIBERESPMadridSpain
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- CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health CIBERESPMadridSpain
- Department of Epidemiology, Regional Health CouncilIMIB‐ArrixacaMurciaSpain
- Department of Health and Social SciencesUniversidad de MurciaMurciaSpain
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- CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health CIBERESPMadridSpain
- Navarra Public Health InstitutePamplonaSpain
- IdiSNA, Navarra Institute for Health ResearchPamplonaSpain
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- Public Health Direction and Biodonostia Research Institute‐CieberspBasque Regional Health DepartmentVitoria‐GasteizSpain
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- Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research ProgramCatalan Institute of Oncology‐IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de LlobregatBarcelonaSpain
- Department of Nursing of Public Health, Mental Health and Maternity and Child HealthSchool of Nursing. Universitat de Barcelona, L'Hospitalet de LlobregatBarcelonaSpain
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- Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University and Department of UrologySkåne University HospitalMalmöSweden
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- Section of Nutrition and MetabolismInternational Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC‐WHO)LyonFrance
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- Section of Nutrition and MetabolismInternational Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC‐WHO)LyonFrance
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- Department of Epidemiology and BiostatisticsThe School of Public Health, Imperial College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
- Bjørknes University CollegeOsloNorway
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- Department of Epidemiology and BiostatisticsThe School of Public Health, Imperial College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology and BiostatisticsThe School of Public Health, Imperial College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population HealthUniversity of OxfordOxfordUnited Kingdom
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population HealthUniversity of OxfordOxfordUnited Kingdom
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- Nina Roswall
- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway and.,Genetic Epidemiology Group, Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
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Roswall N, Hvidtfeldt UA, Harrington J, Levine KE, Sørensen M, Tjønneland A, Meliker JR, Raaschou-Nielsen O. Predictors of Urinary Arsenic Levels among Postmenopausal Danish Women. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2018; 15:ijerph15071340. [PMID: 29949863 PMCID: PMC6068487 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph15071340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2018] [Revised: 06/18/2018] [Accepted: 06/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
Arsenic is a risk factor for several noncommunicable diseases, even at low doses. Urinary arsenic (UAs) concentration is a good biomarker for internal dose, and demographic, dietary, and lifestyle factors are proposed predictors in nonoccupationally exposed populations. However, most predictor studies are limited in terms of size and number of predictors. We investigated demographic, dietary, and lifestyle determinants of UAs concentrations in 744 postmenopausal Danish women who had UAs measurements and questionnaire data on potential predictors. UAs concentrations were determined using mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), and determinants of the concentration were investigated using univariate and multivariate regression models. We used a forward selection procedure for model optimization. In all models, fish, alcohol, and poultry intake were associated with higher UAs concentration, and tap water, fruit, potato, and dairy intake with lower concentration. A forward regression model explained 35% (R2) of the variation in concentrations. Age, smoking, education, and area of residence did not predict concentration. The results were relatively robust across sensitivity analyses. The study suggested that UAs concentration in postmenopausal women was primarily determined by dietary factors, with fish consumption showing the strongest direct association. However, the majority of variation in UAs concentration in this study population is still unexplained.
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- Nina Roswall
- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Analytical Sciences Division, Research Triangle Institute, 3040 East Cornwallis Road, PO Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2194, USA.
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- Analytical Sciences Division, Research Triangle Institute, 3040 East Cornwallis Road, PO Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2194, USA.
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Department of Natural Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Universitetsvej 1, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark.
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Program in Public Health, Department of Family, Population, and Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University, 101 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark.
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Landais E, Moskal A, Mullee A, Nicolas G, Gunter MJ, Huybrechts I, Overvad K, Roswall N, Affret A, Fagherazzi G, Mahamat-Saleh Y, Katzke V, Kühn T, La Vecchia C, Trichopoulou A, Valanou E, Saieva C, Santucci de Magistris M, Sieri S, Braaten T, Skeie G, Weiderpass E, Ardanaz E, Chirlaque MD, Garcia JR, Jakszyn P, Rodríguez-Barranco M, Brunkwall L, Huseinovic E, Nilsson L, Wallström P, Bueno-de-Mesquita B, Peeters PH, Aune D, Key T, Lentjes M, Riboli E, Slimani N, Freisling H. Coffee and Tea Consumption and the Contribution of Their Added Ingredients to Total Energy and Nutrient Intakes in 10 European Countries: Benchmark Data from the Late 1990s. Nutrients 2018; 10:E725. [PMID: 29874819 PMCID: PMC6024313 DOI: 10.3390/nu10060725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2018] [Revised: 05/31/2018] [Accepted: 06/01/2018] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Coffee and tea are among the most commonly consumed nonalcoholic beverages worldwide, but methodological differences in assessing intake often hamper comparisons across populations. We aimed to (i) describe coffee and tea intakes and (ii) assess their contribution to intakes of selected nutrients in adults across 10 European countries. METHOD Between 1995 and 2000, a standardized 24-h dietary recall was conducted among 36,018 men and women from 27 European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study centres. Adjusted arithmetic means of intakes were estimated in grams (=volume) per day by sex and centre. Means of intake across centres were compared by sociodemographic characteristics and lifestyle factors. RESULTS In women, the mean daily intake of coffee ranged from 94 g/day (~0.6 cups) in Greece to 781 g/day (~4.4 cups) in Aarhus (Denmark), and tea from 14 g/day (~0.1 cups) in Navarra (Spain) to 788 g/day (~4.3 cups) in the UK general population. Similar geographical patterns for mean daily intakes of both coffee and tea were observed in men. Current smokers as compared with those who reported never smoking tended to drink on average up to 500 g/day more coffee and tea combined, but with substantial variation across centres. Other individuals' characteristics such as educational attainment or age were less predictive. In all centres, coffee and tea contributed to less than 10% of the energy intake. The greatest contribution to total sugar intakes was observed in Southern European centres (up to ~20%). CONCLUSION Coffee and tea intake and their contribution to energy and sugar intake differed greatly among European adults. Variation in consumption was mostly driven by geographical region.
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- Edwige Landais
- UMR Nutripass, IRD-UM-Sup'Agro, 34394 Montpellier, France.
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 69372 Lyon, France.
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 69372 Lyon, France.
- School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, Woodview House, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 69372 Lyon, France.
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 69372 Lyon, France.
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 69372 Lyon, France.
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- Department of Public Health, Section for Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Bartholins Alle 2, room 2.26, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark.
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Diet, Genes and Environment, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Inserm CESP U1018, Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Sud, Paris-Saclay, 94800 Villejuif, France.
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- Inserm CESP U1018, Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Sud, Paris-Saclay, 94800 Villejuif, France.
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- Inserm CESP U1018, Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Sud, Paris-Saclay, 94800 Villejuif, France.
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Cancer Epidemiology, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Cancer Epidemiology, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
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- Hellenic Health Foundation, 115 27 Athens, Greece.
- Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20122 Milano, Italy.
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- Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, ISPO Cancer Prevention and Research Institute, 50139 Florence, Italy.
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- Epidemiology and Prevention Unit Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, 20133 Milan, Italy.
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- Department of Community Medicine UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, 9037 Tromsø, Norway.
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- Department of Community Medicine UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, 9037 Tromsø, Norway.
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- Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, 9037 Tromsø, Norway.
- Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population-Based Cancer Research, NO-0304 Oslo, Norway.
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
- Genetic Epidemiology Group, Folkhälsan Research Center and Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinkiv, Finland.
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- Navarra Public Health Institute, Pamplona, Spain IdiSNA, Navarra Institute for Health Research, 31003 Pamplona, Spain.
- CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health CIBERESP, 28029 Madrid, Spain.
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- CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health CIBERESP, 28029 Madrid, Spain.
- Department of Epidemiology, Regional Health Council, IMIB-Arrixaca, 30008 Murcia, Spain.
- Department of Health and Social Sciences, Universidad de Murcia, 30008 Murcia, Spain.
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- EPIC Asturias, Public Health Directorate, Asturias, 33006 Oviedo, Spain.
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- Unit of Nutrition, Environment and Cancer, Catalan Institute of Oncology, 08908 Barcelona, Spain.
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- CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health CIBERESP, 28029 Madrid, Spain.
- Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública. Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs, 18011 Granada, Spain.
- Hospitales Universitarios de Granada, Universidad de Granada, 18014 Granada, Spain.
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden.
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- Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Nutritional Research, Umeå University, and Arctic Research Centre at Umeå University, SE-901 85 Umeå, Sweden.
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK.
- Department of Social & Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia.
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- University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK.
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK.
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- Strangeways Research Laboratories, Department of Public Health & Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK.
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK.
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 69372 Lyon, France.
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 69372 Lyon, France.
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Roswall N, Sørensen M, Tjønneland A, Raaschou-Nielsen O. Organochlorine concentrations in adipose tissue and survival in postmenopausal, Danish breast cancer patients. Environ Res 2018; 163:237-248. [PMID: 29459306 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2018.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2017] [Revised: 02/01/2018] [Accepted: 02/03/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND Several studies have investigated an association between organochlorine-concentrations and breast cancer incidence, whereas few have investigated an association with breast cancer mortality. METHODS We used Cox Proportional Hazards Models to estimate the association between adipose organochlorine-concentrations and mortality after breast cancer in a survivor-cohort of 399 postmenopausal women. During a median follow-up of 16.1 years, 177 women died; 119 from breast cancer. RESULTS There was a general inverse association with PCB-concentration (e.g. ΣPCBs: Mortality Rate Ratio (MRR) 0.79, 95% confidence interval (CI) (0.64-0.98) per inter-quartile range (IQR)), and for all pesticides, except β-Hexachlorocyclohexane, which was not associated with mortality (MRR 1.02(0.87-1.18) per IQR), and dieldrin, which was associated with a significantly increased risk of death (MRR 1.22(1.05-1.41) per IQR). We found an interaction with prognostic factors for all PCBs, confining the inverse association to those with adverse prognostic factors. Results for pesticides suggested a similar, but mostly non-significant interaction. Dieldrin diverged from the general picture by being associated with increased mortality across all strata. CONCLUSION A higher concentration of PCBs and several organochlorine pesticides may be inversely associated with breast cancer mortality among women with adverse prognostic factors. Further studies are required to investigate if this is a causal association. Dieldrin was associated with a higher mortality, regardless of prognostic factors. IMPACT This is the first study to investigate an association between organochlorine concentrations in adipose tissue and breast cancer mortality. A prominent finding is a strong interaction with prognostic factors. The unexpected direction of association for most organochlorines encourages further studies of the role of individual metabolism of the organochlorines and a potentially stronger effect of the metabolites on mortality.
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- Nina Roswall
- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark; Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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Roswall N, Christensen JS, Bidstrup PE, Raaschou-Nielsen O, Jensen SS, Tjønneland A, Sørensen M. Associations between residential traffic noise exposure and smoking habits and alcohol consumption-A population-based study. Environ Pollut 2018; 236:983-991. [PMID: 29122366 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2017.10.093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2017] [Revised: 10/23/2017] [Accepted: 10/23/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND Traffic noise stresses and disturbs sleep. It has been associated with various diseases, and has recently also been associated with lifestyle. Hence, the association between traffic noise and disease could partly operate via a pathway of lifestyle habits, including smoking and alcohol intake. OBJECTIVES We investigated associations between modelled residential traffic noise and smoking habits and alcohol consumption. METHODS In a cohort of 57,053 participants, we performed cross-sectional analyses using data from a baseline questionnaire (1993-97), and longitudinal analyses of change between baseline and follow-up (2000-02). Smoking status (never, former, current) and intensity (tobacco, g/day) and alcohol consumption (g/day) was self-reported at baseline and follow-up. Address history from 1987-2002 for all participants were found in national registries, and road traffic and railway noise was modelled 1 and 5 years before enrolment, and from baseline to follow-up. Analyses were performed using logistic and linear regression, and adjusted for demographics, socioeconomic variables, leisure-time sports, and noise from the opposite source (road/railway). RESULTS Road traffic noise exposure 5 years before baseline was positively associated with alcohol consumption (adjusted difference per 10 dB: 1.38 g/day, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.10-1.65), smoking intensity (adjusted difference per 10 dB: 0.40 g/day, 95% CI: 0.19-0.61), and odds for being a current vs. never/former smoker at baseline (odds ratio (OR): 1.14; 95% CI: 1.10-1.17). In longitudinal analyses, we found no association between road traffic noise and change in smoking and alcohol habits. Railway noise was not associated with smoking habits and alcohol consumption, neither in cross-sectional nor in longitudinal analyses. CONCLUSION The study suggests that long-term exposure to residential road traffic is associated with smoking habits and alcohol consumption, albeit only in cross-sectional, but not in longitudinal analyses.
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- Nina Roswall
- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, Postboks 358, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, Postboks 358, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Raaschou-Nielsen O, Hvidtfeldt UA, Roswall N, Hertel O, Poulsen AH, Sørensen M. Ambient benzene at the residence and risk for subtypes of childhood leukemia, lymphoma and CNS tumor. Int J Cancer 2018; 143:1367-1373. [PMID: 29633247 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.31421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2017] [Revised: 03/26/2018] [Accepted: 03/28/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Exposure to benzene increases the risk for acute myeloid leukemia and possibly other types of cancer in adults. For children, only limited evidence about benzene and cancer exists. A few studies have indicated that benzene may increase risk for some subtypes of childhood cancer but not for others. We aimed to investigate if outdoor levels of benzene at the residence increase the risk for subtypes of leukemia, lymphoma and CNS tumor in children. We identified 1,989 children diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma or CNS tumor during 1968-1991 in the Danish Cancer Registry and randomly selected 5,506 control children from the Danish population, matched on sex, age and calendar time. We traced residential history of all children from 9 months before birth to time of diagnosis, calculated outdoor benzene concentration at all addresses and summarized cumulative exposure over fetal and childhood periods separately. We used conditional logistic regression for the statistical analyses. Benzene exposure during childhood above the 90th percentile was associated with relative risks for acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) of 1.0 (95% confidence intervals (CI): 0.6-1.7) and 1.9 (95% CI: 0.3-11.1), respectively, when compared with exposure levels below the median. For CNS tumors, there was a tendency of lower risk for ependymoma and higher risk for medulloblastoma in association with higher exposure. In conclusion, benzene was associated with higher risk for childhood AML, but not ALL, which is consistent with the few previous studies.
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- Ole Raaschou-Nielsen
- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.,Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, DK-4000, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, DK-4000, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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Roswall N, Andersen ZJ, von Euler-Chelpin M, Vejborg I, Lynge E, Jensen SS, Raaschou-Nielsen O, Tjønneland A, Sørensen M. Residential traffic noise and mammographic breast density in the Diet, Cancer, and Health cohort. Cancer Causes Control 2018. [PMID: 29520472 DOI: 10.1007/s10552-018-1021-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Traffic is the most important source of community noise, and it has been proposed to be associated with a range of disease outcomes, including breast cancer. As mammographic breast density (MD) is one of the strongest risk factors for developing breast cancer, the present study investigated whether there is an association between residential exposure to traffic noise and MD in a Danish cohort. METHODS We included women with reproductive and lifestyle information available from the Diet, Cancer, and Health cohort, who also participated in the Copenhagen Mammography Screening Programme (n = 5,260). Present and historical addresses from 1987 to 2011 were found in national registries, and traffic noise was modeled 5 years before mammogram. Analyses between residential traffic noise and MD were performed using logistic regression. RESULTS We found no association between residential road and railway noise exposure 5 years before mammogram, and having a mixed/dense versus a fatty mammogram, and no interaction with menopausal status, BMI, HRT use, and railway noise exposure, for analyses on road traffic noise. CONCLUSION The present study does not suggest an association between residential traffic noise exposure and subsequent MD in a cohort of middle-aged Danish women.
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- Nina Roswall
- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Department of Public Health, Center for Epidemiology and Screening, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Public Health, Center for Epidemiology and Screening, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Radiology, Diagnostic Imaging Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Public Health, Center for Epidemiology and Screening, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of natural Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
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Roswall N, Raaschou-Nielsen O, Jensen SS, Tjønneland A, Sørensen M. Long-term exposure to residential railway and road traffic noise and risk for diabetes in a Danish cohort. Environ Res 2018; 160:292-297. [PMID: 29045908 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2017.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2017] [Revised: 10/04/2017] [Accepted: 10/05/2017] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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BACKGROUND Road traffic noise exposure has been found associated with diabetes incidence. Evidence for an association between railway noise exposure is less clear, as large studies with detailed railway noise modelling are lacking. PURPOSE To investigate the association between residential railway noise and diabetes incidence, and to repeat previous analyses on road traffic noise and diabetes with longer follow-up time. METHODS Among 50,534 middle-aged Danes enrolled into the Diet, Cancer and Health cohort from 1993 to 97, we identified 5062 cases of incident diabetes during a median follow-up of 15.5 years. Present and historical residential addresses from 1987 to 2012 were found in national registries, and railway and road traffic noise (Lden) were modelled for all addresses, using the Nordic prediction method. We used Cox proportional hazard models to investigate the association between residential traffic noise over 1 and 5 years before diagnosis, and diabetes incidence. Hazard ratios (HRs) were calculated as crude and adjusted for potential confounders. RESULTS We found no association between railway noise exposure and diabetes incidence among the 9527 persons exposed, regardless of exposure time-window: HR 0.99 (0.94-1.04) per 10dB for 5-year exposure in fully adjusted models. There was no effect modification by sex, road traffic noise, and education. We confirmed the previously found association between road traffic noise exposure and diabetes including 6 additional years of follow-up: HR 1.08 (1.04-1.13) per 10dB for 5-year exposure in fully adjusted models. CONCLUSION The study does not suggest an association between residential railway noise exposure and diabetes incidence, but supports the finding of a direct association with residential road traffic noise.
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- Nina Roswall
- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark; Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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Roswall N, Sørensen M, Bräuner EV, Tjønneland A, Raaschou-Nielsen O. No Association between Organochlorine Concentrations in Adipose Tissue and Survival after Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2017; 27:224-226. [DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-17-0937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2017] [Revised: 11/29/2017] [Accepted: 11/30/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Botteri E, Ferrari P, Roswall N, Tjønneland A, Hjartåker A, Huerta JM, Fortner RT, Trichopoulou A, Karakatsani A, La Vecchia C, Pala V, Perez-Cornago A, Sonestedt E, Liedberg F, Overvad K, Sánchez MJ, Gram IT, Stepien M, Trijsburg L, Börje L, Johansson M, Kühn T, Panico S, Tumino R, Bueno-de-Mesquita HBA, Weiderpass E. Alcohol consumption and risk of urothelial cell bladder cancer in the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition cohort. Int J Cancer 2017; 141:1963-1970. [PMID: 28722206 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.30894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2017] [Revised: 06/16/2017] [Accepted: 06/28/2017] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Findings on the association between alcohol consumption and bladder cancer are inconsistent. We investigated that association in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort. We included 476,160 individuals mostly aged 35-70 years, enrolled in ten countries and followed for 13.9 years on average. Hazard ratios (HR) for developing urothelial cell carcinoma (UCC; 1,802 incident cases) were calculated using Cox proportional hazards models. Alcohol consumption at baseline and over the life course was analyzed, as well as different types of beverages (beer, wine, spirits). Baseline alcohol intake was associated with a statistically nonsignificant increased risk of UCC (HR 1.03; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.00-1.06 for each additional 12 g/day). HR in smokers was 1.04 (95% CI 1.01-1.07). Men reporting high baseline intakes of alcohol (>96 g/day) had an increased risk of UCC (HR 1.57; 95% CI 1.03-2.40) compared to those reporting moderate intakes (<6 g/day), but no dose-response relationship emerged. In men, an increased risk of aggressive forms of UCC was observed even at lower doses (>6 to 24 g/day). Average lifelong alcohol intake was not associated with the risk of UCC, however intakes of spirits > 24 g/day were associated with an increased risk of UCC in men (1.38; 95% CI 1.01-1.91) and smokers (1.39; 95% CI 1.01-1.92), compared to moderate intakes. We found no association between alcohol and UCC in women and never smokers. In conclusion, we observed some associations between alcohol and UCC in men and in smokers, possibly because of residual confounding by tobacco smoking.
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- E Botteri
- Department of Bowel Cancer Screening, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- National Advisory Unit for Women's Health, Women's Clinic, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Epidemiology, Murcia Regional Health Council, IMIB-Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece
- Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, WHO Collaborating Center for Nutrition and Health, Unit of Nutritional Epidemiology and Nutrition in Public Health, Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece
- 2nd Pulmonary Medicine Department, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "ATTIKON" University Hospital, Haidari, Greece
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- Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece
- Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
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- Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Department of Preventive & Predictive Medicine. Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of Translational Medicine, Division of Clinical and Experimental Urothelial Carcinoma Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health, Section for Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain
- Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública. Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs. Granada. Hospitales Universitarios de Granada/Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Urology and Andrology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
- Department for biobank research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy
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- Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit "Civic - M.P. Arezzo" Hospital ASP, Ragusa, Italy
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- Department for Determinants of Chronic Diseases, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
- Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population-Based Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Genetic Epidemiology Group, Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
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Roswall N, Bidstrup PE, Raaschou-Nielsen O, Solvang Jensen S, Overvad K, Halkjær J, Sørensen M. Residential road traffic noise exposure and colorectal cancer survival - A Danish cohort study. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0187161. [PMID: 29084272 PMCID: PMC5662233 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2017] [Accepted: 10/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Residential traffic noise exposure may entail sleep disruption and compromised circadian functioning; two factors which have been associated with a poor colorectal cancer (CRC) prognosis. Hence, the aim of the present study was to investigate the association between residential road traffic noise and CRC survival. METHODS AND MATERIALS Road traffic noise was calculated for all residential addresses from 1987 to February 2012 for incident CRC cases (n = 1,234) in a cohort of 57,053 Danes. We used Cox Proportional Hazard Models to investigate the association between residential road traffic noise at different time-windows, and overall and CRC-specific mortality. Furthermore, we investigated interaction with sex, age, prognostic factors, and comorbidity. Mortality Rate Ratios (MRR) were calculated in unadjusted models, and adjusted for railway noise, lifestyle factors, and socioeconomic variables. RESULTS During a median follow-up of 4 years, 594 patients died; 447 from CRC. We found no association between road traffic noise exposure and overall (MRR 1.00 (0.88-1.13) per 10 dB) or CRC-specific mortality (MRR 0.98 (0.85-1.13) per 10 dB) over the entire follow-up period, or 1 year preceding death. Results did not differ when examining colon and rectal cancer separately. Interaction analyses suggested that patients with less clinically advanced disease could be more susceptible to harmful effects of traffic noise. CONCLUSION The present study suggests no overall association between residential road traffic noise and concurrent mortality in CRC patients. As it is the first study of its kind, with relatively limited power, further studies are warranted.
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- Nina Roswall
- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Public Health, Section for Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Roswall N, Stangerup SE, Cayé-Thomasen P, Schüz J, Johansen C, Jensen SS, Raaschou-Nielsen O, Sørensen M. Residential traffic noise exposure and vestibular schwannoma - a Danish case-control study. Acta Oncol 2017; 56:1310-1316. [PMID: 28609173 DOI: 10.1080/0284186x.2017.1337925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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BACKGROUND Few risk factors for sporadic vestibular schwannoma (VS) are known. Several studies have proposed an increased risk with occupational noise exposure, whereas no studies have investigated residential traffic noise exposure as a risk factor. The present study investigated if residential traffic noise was associated with vestibular schwannoma in a large, population-based Danish case-control study. MATERIAL AND METHODS We identified 1454 VS cases, age above 30 years at diagnosis, between 1990 and 2007. For each case, we selected two random population controls, matched on sex and year of birth. Road and railway traffic noise at the residence was calculated for all present and historical addresses between 1987 and index date. Associations between traffic noise and risk for VS were estimated using conditional logistic regression, adjusted for education, disposable personal income, cohabitation status, railway noise exposure, municipal population density, and municipal income. RESULTS A two-year time-weighted mean road traffic noise exposure was associated with an adjusted odds ratio of 0.92 (0.82-1.03) for developing VS, per 10 dB increment. There was no clear trend in categorical analyses. Similarly, linear and categorical analyses of residential railway noise did not suggest an association. We found no interaction with demographics, year of diagnosis, individual and municipal socioeconomic variables, and railway noise exposure. The results did not differ by tumor side, spread or size. CONCLUSIONS The present study does not suggest an association between residential traffic noise and VS.
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- Nina Roswall
- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Oto-rhino-laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, and Audiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Oto-rhino-laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, and Audiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Section of Environment and Radiation, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Oncology, Finsen Centre, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Roswall N, Ammitzbøll G, Christensen JS, Raaschou-Nielsen O, Jensen SS, Tjønneland A, Sørensen M. Residential exposure to traffic noise and leisure-time sports – A population-based study. Int J Hyg Environ Health 2017; 220:1006-1013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2017.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2017] [Revised: 05/16/2017] [Accepted: 05/18/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Roswall N, Raaschou-Nielsen O, Ketzel M, Gammelmark A, Overvad K, Olsen A, Sørensen M. Long-term residential road traffic noise and NO 2 exposure in relation to risk of incident myocardial infarction - A Danish cohort study. Environ Res 2017; 156:80-86. [PMID: 28334645 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2017.03.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2017] [Revised: 02/14/2017] [Accepted: 03/15/2017] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Road traffic is a source of both air pollution and noise; two environmental hazards both found to increase the risk of ischemic heart disease. Given the high correlation between these pollutants, it is important to investigate combined effects, in relation to myocardial infarction (MI). METHODS Among 50,744 middle-aged Danes enrolled into the Diet, Cancer and Health cohort from 1993 to 97, we identified 2403 cases of incident MI during a median follow-up of 14.5 years. Present and historical residential addresses from 1987 to 2011 were found in national registries, and traffic noise (Lden) and air pollution (NO2) were modelled for all addresses. Analyses were performed using Cox proportional hazard models. RESULTS Road traffic noise and NO2 were both individually associated with a higher risk of MI, with hazard ratios of 1.14 (1.07-1.21) and 1.08 (1.03-1.12) per inter-quartile range higher 10-year mean of road traffic noise and NO2, respectively. Mutual exposure adjustment reduced the association with 10-year NO2 exposure (1.02 (0.96-1.08)), whereas the association with road traffic noise remained: 1.12 (1.03-1.21). For fatal incident MI, the pattern was similar, but the associations for both pollutants were stronger. In analyses of tertiles across both pollutants, the strongest effects were seen for combined medium/high exposure, especially for fatal MI's. CONCLUSION Both road traffic noise and NO2 were associated with a higher risk of MI in single-pollutant models. In two-pollutant models, mainly noise was associated with MI. Combined exposure to both pollutants was associated with the highest risk.
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- Nina Roswall
- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark; Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Cardiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Hobrovej 18-22, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark
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- Department of Cardiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Hobrovej 18-22, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark; Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Bartholins Alle 2, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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Roswall N, Li Y, Sandin S, Ström P, Adami HO, Weiderpass E. Changes in body mass index and waist circumference and concurrent mortality among Swedish women. Obesity (Silver Spring) 2017; 25:215-222. [PMID: 27768253 DOI: 10.1002/oby.21675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2016] [Revised: 07/07/2016] [Accepted: 08/09/2016] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Most studies on obesity and mortality use a single anthropometric measure. Less is known about the effects of weight change on mortality. This study examined changes in body mass index (ΔBMI) and waist circumference (ΔWC) and subsequent all-cause and cause-specific mortality. METHODS The study was conducted in the Women's Lifestyle and Health cohort, using self-reported anthropometric measures from 1991 to 1992 and 2003. Hazard ratios of mortality and 95% confidence intervals were calculated using Cox proportional hazards models. ΔBMI and ΔWC were examined in quartiles of absolute and relative change, with the second quartile (moderate gain) as the reference. RESULTS There was a higher risk of death in the first quartile of relative ΔBMI: HR 1.28 (1.04-1.56). Absolute ΔBMI suggested the same pattern, but the result was nonsignificant. ΔWC was not associated with mortality. In cause-specific analyses, the association remained significant for cancer mortality only. In sensitivity analyses excluding the first 5 years of follow-up, the association was, however, attenuated. CONCLUSIONS This study found a higher risk of death among women in the first quartile of relative ΔBMI compared with the second. It was driven by cancer mortality but may be ascribed to reverse causality. ΔWC was not associated with mortality.
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- Nina Roswall
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Zhejiang University School of Public Health, Hangzhou, China
- Department of Public Health, Hangzhou Medical School, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
- Genetic Epidemiology Group, Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
- The Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population Based Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway
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BACKGROUND Alcohol consumption is steadily increasing in high-income countries but the harm and possible net benefits of light-to-moderate drinking remain controversial. We prospectively investigated the association between time-varying alcohol consumption and overall and cause-specific mortality among middle-aged women. METHODS Among 48 249 women at baseline (33 404 at follow-up) in the prospective Swedish Women's Lifestyle and Health cohort, age 30-49 years at baseline, we used repeated information on alcohol consumption and combined this method with multiple imputation in order to maximise the number of participants and deaths included in the analyses. Multivariable Cox regression models were used to calculate HRs for overall and cause-specific mortality. RESULTS During >900 000 person/years, a total of 2100 deaths were recorded through Swedish registries. The median alcohol consumption increased from 2.3 g/day in 1991/1992 (baseline) to 4.7 g/day in 2004 (follow-up). Compared with light drinkers (0.1-1.5 g/day), a null association was observed for all categories of alcohol consumption with the exception of never drinkers. The HR comparing never with light drinkers was 1.46 (95% CI 1.22 to 1.74). There was a statistically significant negative trend between increasing alcohol consumption and cardiovascular and ischaemic heart diseases mortality. The results were similar when women with prevalent conditions were excluded. CONCLUSIONS In conclusion, in a cohort of young women, light alcohol consumption was protective for cardiovascular and ischaemic heart disease mortality but not for cancer and overall mortality.
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- Idlir Licaj
- Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT—The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT—The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT—The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population-based Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway
- Genetic Epidemiology Group, Folkhälsan Research Centre, Samfundet Folkhälsan, Helsinki, Finland
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Roswall N, Bidstrup PE, Raaschou-Nielsen O, Jensen SS, Olsen A, Sørensen M. Residential road traffic noise exposure and survival after breast cancer - A cohort study. Environ Res 2016; 151:814-820. [PMID: 27687723 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2016.09.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2016] [Revised: 09/19/2016] [Accepted: 09/20/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND It is generally acknowledged that patients with already existing clinical conditions are especially vulnerable to the effects of traffic noise exposure. The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between residential road traffic noise and breast cancer survival. METHODS Road traffic noise was calculated for all residential addresses from 1987 to February 2012 for incident breast cancer cases (n=1,759) in a cohort of 57,053 Danes. We used Cox Proportional Hazard Models to investigate the association between residential road traffic noise at different time-windows, and overall and breast cancer-specific mortality. Furthermore, we investigated interaction with prognostic and socioeconomic factors. Mortality Rate Ratios (MRR) were calculated in both unadjusted models, and adjusted for residential railway noise, lifestyle factors and socioeconomic variables. RESULTS During a median of 7.3 years of follow-up, 402 patients died; 274 from breast cancer. We found no association between time-weighted averages of residential road traffic noise 1-, 3- or 5-years before death, or over the entire follow-up period, and overall or breast cancer-specific mortality. A 10dB higher road traffic noise from diagnosis until censoring was associated with an adjusted MRR of 0.94 (0.81-1.08) for all-cause mortality. The association was modified by lymph node involvement, with a MRR of 1.20 (0.97-1.48) for those with tumor-positive lymph nodes and 0.76 (0.59-0.98) for those without. CONCLUSION The present study suggests no association between residential road traffic noise and concurrent mortality. As it is the first study of its kind, with relatively limited power, further studies are warranted.
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- Nina Roswall
- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark; Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, Postboks 358, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, Postboks 358, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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Lassale C, Gunter MJ, Romaguera D, Peelen LM, Van der Schouw YT, Beulens JWJ, Freisling H, Muller DC, Ferrari P, Huybrechts I, Fagherazzi G, Boutron-Ruault MC, Affret A, Overvad K, Dahm CC, Olsen A, Roswall N, Tsilidis KK, Katzke VA, Kühn T, Buijsse B, Quirós JR, Sánchez-Cantalejo E, Etxezarreta N, Huerta JM, Barricarte A, Bonet C, Khaw KT, Key TJ, Trichopoulou A, Bamia C, Lagiou P, Palli D, Agnoli C, Tumino R, Fasanelli F, Panico S, Bueno-de-Mesquita HB, Boer JMA, Sonestedt E, Nilsson LM, Renström F, Weiderpass E, Skeie G, Lund E, Moons KGM, Riboli E, Tzoulaki I. Diet Quality Scores and Prediction of All-Cause, Cardiovascular and Cancer Mortality in a Pan-European Cohort Study. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0159025. [PMID: 27409582 PMCID: PMC4943719 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2016] [Accepted: 06/24/2016] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Scores of overall diet quality have received increasing attention in relation to disease aetiology; however, their value in risk prediction has been little examined. The objective was to assess and compare the association and predictive performance of 10 diet quality scores on 10-year risk of all-cause, CVD and cancer mortality in 451,256 healthy participants to the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition, followed-up for a median of 12.8y. All dietary scores studied showed significant inverse associations with all outcomes. The range of HRs (95% CI) in the top vs. lowest quartile of dietary scores in a composite model including non-invasive factors (age, sex, smoking, body mass index, education, physical activity and study centre) was 0.75 (0.72-0.79) to 0.88 (0.84-0.92) for all-cause, 0.76 (0.69-0.83) to 0.84 (0.76-0.92) for CVD and 0.78 (0.73-0.83) to 0.91 (0.85-0.97) for cancer mortality. Models with dietary scores alone showed low discrimination, but composite models also including age, sex and other non-invasive factors showed good discrimination and calibration, which varied little between different diet scores examined. Mean C-statistic of full models was 0.73, 0.80 and 0.71 for all-cause, CVD and cancer mortality. Dietary scores have poor predictive performance for 10-year mortality risk when used in isolation but display good predictive ability in combination with other non-invasive common risk factors.
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- Camille Lassale
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Palma (IdISPa), Palma de Mallorca, Spain
- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population, Health, U1018, Team 9, Villejuif, France
- Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
- Paris South University, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1018, Villejuif, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population, Health, U1018, Team 9, Villejuif, France
- Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
- Paris South University, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1018, Villejuif, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population, Health, U1018, Team 9, Villejuif, France
- Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
- Paris South University, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1018, Villejuif, France
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- Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Deutsches Institut für Ernährungsforschung Potsdam-Rehbrücke German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam, Germany
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- Deutsches Institut für Ernährungsforschung Potsdam-Rehbrücke German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece
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- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Public Health Directorate, Asturias, Oviedo, Spain
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- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Andalusian School of Public Health, Granada, Spain
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- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Public Health Direction and Biodonostia Basque Regional Health Department, San Sebastian, Spain
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- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Epidemiology, Murcia Regional Health Council, Murcia, Spain
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- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Navarre Public Health Institute, Pamplona, Spain
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- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Unit of Nutrition, Environment and Cancer, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain
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- University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Clinical Gerontology Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
- Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
- Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
- Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece
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- Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute—ISPO, Florence, Italy
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- Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Foundation of the Carlo Besta Neurological Institute, Milan, Italy
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- Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, “Civic MP Arezzo” Hospital, Ragusa, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Federico II University, Naples, Italy
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- Center for Nutrition, Prevention and Health Services, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands
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- Center for Nutrition, Prevention and Health Services, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Nutritional Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Nutritional Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
- Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Genetic Epidemiology Group, Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
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Larsen SC, Ängquist L, Østergaard JN, Ahluwalia TS, Vimaleswaran KS, Roswall N, Mortensen LM, Nielsen BM, Tjønneland A, Wareham NJ, Palli D, Masala G, Saris WHM, van der A DL, Boer JMA, Feskens EJM, Boeing H, Jakobsen MU, Loos RJF, Sørensen TIA, Overvad K. Intake of Total and Subgroups of Fat Minimally Affect the Associations between Selected Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the PPARγ Pathway and Changes in Anthropometry among European Adults from Cohorts of the DiOGenes Study. J Nutr 2016; 146:603-11. [PMID: 26865646 PMCID: PMC6217916 DOI: 10.3945/jn.115.219675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2015] [Accepted: 01/08/2016] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Although the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) pathway is central in adipogenesis, it remains unknown whether it influences change in body weight (BW) and whether dietary fat has a modifying effect on the association. OBJECTIVES We examined whether 27 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within 4 genes in the PPARγ pathway are associated with the OR of being a BW gainer or with annual changes in anthropometry and whether intake of total fat, monounsaturated fat, polyunsaturated fat, or saturated fat has a modifying effect on these associations. METHODS A case-noncase study included 11,048 men and women from cohorts in the European Diet, Obesity and Genes study; 5552 were cases, defined as individuals with the greatest BW gain during follow-up, and 6548 were randomly selected, including 5496 noncases. We selected 4 genes [CCAAT/enhancer binding protein β (CEBPB), phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase 2, PPARγ gene (PPARG), and sterol regulatory element binding transcription factor 1] according to evidence about biologic plausibility for interactions with dietary fat in weight regulation. Diet was assessed at baseline, and anthropometry was followed for 7 y. RESULTS The ORs for being a BW gainer for the 27 genetic variants ranged from 0.87 (95% CI: 0.79, 1.03) to 1.12 (95% CI: 0.96, 1.22) per additional minor allele. Uncorrected, CEBPB rs4253449 had a significant interaction with the intake of total fat and subgroups of fat. The OR for being a BW gainer for each additional rs4253449 minor allele per 100 kcal higher total fat intake was 1.07 (95% CI: 1.02, 1.12; P = 0.008), and similar associations were found for subgroups of fat. CONCLUSIONS Among European men and women, the influence of dietary fat on associations between SNPs in the PPARγ pathway and anthropometry is likely to be absent or marginal. The observed interaction between rs4253449 and dietary fat needs confirmation.
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- Sofus C Larsen
- Research Unit for Dietary Studies at the Parker Institute, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospitals, The Capital Region, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Center, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark;
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- Institute of Preventive Medicine, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospitals, The Capital Region, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- The Department for Health and Care, Aarhus Municipality, Aarhus, Denmark,Department of Public Health, Section for Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Bartholins Allé 2, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark,Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Center, Aalborg University Hospital, Alborg, Denmark
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research and Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark,COPSAC, Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Ledreborg Allé 34, DK-2820 Copenhagen, Denmark,Steno Diabetes Center, Gentofte, Denmark
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- Hugh Sinclair Unit of Human Nutrition, Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AP UK; Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research (ICMR), University of Reading, Reading, UK.,The Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Public Health, Section for Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Bartholins Allé 2, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark,Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Center, Aalborg University Hospital, Alborg, Denmark
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- Institute of Preventive Medicine, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospitals, The Capital Region, Copenhagen, Denmark,COPSAC, Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Ledreborg Allé 34, DK-2820 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy
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- Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Human Biology, NUTRIM School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, 6200MD The Netherlands
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- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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- Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, P.O Box 8129, 6700 EV, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Nuthetal, Germany
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- Department of Public Health, Section for Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Bartholins Allé 2, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK,The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, USA,The Department of Preventive Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, USA,The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, USA
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- Institute of Preventive Medicine, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospitals, The Capital Region, Copenhagen, Denmark,Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research and Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark,MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Public Health, Section for Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Bartholins Allé 2, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark,Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Center, Aalborg University Hospital, Alborg, Denmark
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Roswall N, Sandin S, Scragg R, Löf M, Skeie G, Olsen A, Adami HO, Weiderpass E. No association between adherence to the healthy Nordic food index and cardiovascular disease amongst Swedish women: a cohort study. J Intern Med 2015; 278:531-41. [PMID: 25991078 DOI: 10.1111/joim.12378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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BACKGROUND In several intervention trials, a healthy Nordic diet showed beneficial effects on markers of cardiovascular disease. We investigated the association between a healthy Nordic diet and clinical diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. OBJECTIVE Our aim was first to examine the association between a healthy Nordic food index (wholegrain bread, oatmeal, apples/pears, root vegetables, cabbages and fish) and the incidence of overall cardiovascular disease (ischaemic heart disease, stroke, arrhythmia, thrombosis and hypertensive disease), and secondly to test for possible effect modification by smoking, body mass index (BMI), alcohol consumption and age. METHODS We conducted an analysis of data from the prospective Swedish Women's Lifestyle and Health cohort, including 43 310 women who completed a food frequency questionnaire in 1991-1992, and followed up until 31 December 2012 through Swedish registries. Hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated using Cox proportional hazards models. RESULTS During follow-up, 8383 women developed cardiovascular disease. We found no association between the healthy Nordic food index and overall cardiovascular disease risk or any of the subgroups investigated. There was a statistically significant interaction with smoking status (P = 0.02), with a beneficial effect only amongst former smokers (HR 0.96, 95% CI 0.94-0.99 per 1-point increment). CONCLUSION The present results do not support an association between a healthy Nordic food index and risk of cardiovascular disease in Swedish women. There was also no effect modification by alcohol intake, BMI or age. Our finding of an interaction with smoking status requires reproduction.
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- N Roswall
- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromsö, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsö, Norway
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromsö, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsö, Norway.,Genetic Epidemiology Group, Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland.,The Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway
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Roswall N, Eriksen KT, Hjortebjerg D, Jensen SS, Overvad K, Tjønneland A, Raaschou-Nielsen O, Sørensen M. Residential Exposure to Road and Railway Noise and Risk of Prostate Cancer: A Prospective Cohort Study. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0135407. [PMID: 26305219 PMCID: PMC4549252 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2015] [Accepted: 07/21/2015] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Background Few modifiable risk factors for prostate cancer are known. Recently, disruption of the circadian system has been proposed to affect risk, as it entails an inhibited melatonin production, and melatonin has demonstrated beneficial effects on cancer inhibition. This suggests a potential role of traffic noise in prostate cancer. Methods Road traffic and railway noise was calculated for all present and historical addresses from 1987–2010 for a cohort of 24,473 middle-aged, Danish men. During follow-up, 1,457 prostate cancer cases were identified. We used Cox Proportional Hazards Models to calculate the association between noise exposure and incident prostate cancer. Incidence Rate Ratios (IRR) were calculated as crude and adjusted for smoking status, education, socioeconomic position, BMI, waist circumference, physical activity, calendar year, and traffic noise from other sources than the one investigated. Results There was no association between residential road traffic noise and risk of prostate cancer for any of the three exposure windows: 1, 5 or 10-year mean noise exposure before prostate cancer diagnosis. This result persisted when stratifying cases by aggressiveness. For railway noise, there was no association with overall prostate cancer. There was no statistically significant effect modification by age, education, smoking status, waist circumference or railway noise, on the association between road traffic noise and prostate cancer, although there seemed to be a suggestion of an association among never smokers (IRR: 1.16; 95% CI: 1.00–1.36). Conclusion The present study does not support an overall association between either railway or road traffic noise and overall prostate cancer.
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- Nina Roswall
- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Brand JS, Onland-Moret NC, Eijkemans MJC, Tjønneland A, Roswall N, Overvad K, Fagherazzi G, Clavel-Chapelon F, Dossus L, Lukanova A, Grote V, Bergmann MM, Boeing H, Trichopoulou A, Tzivoglou M, Trichopoulos D, Grioni S, Mattiello A, Masala G, Tumino R, Vineis P, Bueno-de-Mesquita HB, Weiderpass E, Redondo ML, Sánchez MJ, Castaño JMH, Arriola L, Ardanaz E, Duell EJ, Rolandsson O, Franks PW, Butt S, Nilsson P, Khaw KT, Wareham N, Travis R, Romieu I, Gunter MJ, Riboli E, van der Schouw YT. Diabetes and onset of natural menopause: results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. Hum Reprod 2015; 30:1491-8. [PMID: 25779698 PMCID: PMC6284789 DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dev054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2014] [Accepted: 12/05/2014] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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STUDY QUESTION Do women who have diabetes before menopause have their menopause at an earlier age compared with women without diabetes? SUMMARY ANSWER Although there was no overall association between diabetes and age at menopause, our study suggests that early-onset diabetes may accelerate menopause. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY Today, more women of childbearing age are being diagnosed with diabetes, but little is known about the impact of diabetes on reproductive health. STUDY DESIGN, SIZE, DURATION We investigated the impact of diabetes on age at natural menopause (ANM) in 258 898 women from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC), enrolled between 1992 and 2000. PARTICIPANTS/MATERIALS, SETTING, METHODS Determinant and outcome information was obtained through questionnaires. Time-dependent Cox regression analyses were used to estimate the associations of diabetes and age at diabetes diagnosis with ANM, stratified by center and adjusted for age, smoking, reproductive and diabetes risk factors and with age from birth to menopause or censoring as the underlying time scale. MAIN RESULTS AND THE ROLE OF CHANCE Overall, no association between diabetes and ANM was found (hazard ratio (HR) = 0.94; 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.89-1.01). However, women with diabetes before the age of 20 years had an earlier menopause (10-20 years: HR = 1.43; 95% CI 1.02-2.01, <10 years: HR = 1.59; 95% CI 1.03-2.43) compared with non-diabetic women, whereas women with diabetes at age 50 years and older had a later menopause (HR = 0.81; 95% CI 0.70-0.95). None of the other age groups were associated with ANM. LIMITATIONS, REASONS FOR CAUTION Strengths of the study include the large sample size and the broad set of potential confounders measured. However, results may have been underestimated due to survival bias. We cannot be sure about the sequence of the events in women with a late age at diabetes, as both events then occur in a short period. We could not distinguish between type 1 and type 2 diabetes. WIDER IMPLICATIONS OF THE FINDINGS Based on the literature, an accelerating effect of early-onset diabetes on ANM might be plausible. A delaying effect of late-onset diabetes on ANM has not been reported before, and is not in agreement with recent studies suggesting the opposite association. STUDY FUNDING/COMPETING INTERESTS The coordination of EPIC is financially supported by the European Commission (DG-SANCO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The national cohorts are supported by Danish Cancer Society (Denmark); Ligue Contre le Cancer, Institut Gustave Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) (France); German Cancer Aid, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMMF) (Germany); Ministry of Health and Social Solidarity, Stavros Niarchos Foundation and Hellenic Health Foundation (Greece); Italian Association for Research on Cancer (AIRC) and National Research Council (Italy); Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS), Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR), LK Research Funds, Dutch Prevention Funds, Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), Statistics Netherlands (The Netherlands); ERC-2009-AdG 232997 and Nordforsk, Nordic Centre of Excellence programme on Food, Nutrition and Health (Norway); Health Research Fund (FIS), Regional Governments of Andalucía, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia (no. 6236) and Navarra, ISCIII RETIC (RD06/0020) (Spain); Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Scientific Council and Regional Government of Skåne and Västerbotten (Sweden); Cancer Research UK, Medical Research Council, Stroke Association, British Heart Foundation, Department of Health, Food Standards Agency, and Wellcome Trust (UK). None of the authors reported a conflict of interest.
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- J S Brand
- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Inserm, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), U1018, Nutrition, Hormones and Women's Health Team, F-94805 Villejuif, France
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- Inserm, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), U1018, Nutrition, Hormones and Women's Health Team, F-94805 Villejuif, France
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- Inserm, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), U1018, Nutrition, Hormones and Women's Health Team, F-94805 Villejuif, France
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany Department of Medical Biosciences, University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Potsdam, Germany
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- WHO Collaborating Center for Food and Nutrition Policies, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, 75 M. Asias Street, Goudi GR-115 27, Athens, Greece Hellenic Health Foundation, 13 Kaisareias Street, Athens GR-115 27, Greece
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- Hellenic Health Foundation, 13 Kaisareias Street, Athens GR-115 27, Greece
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- Hellenic Health Foundation, 13 Kaisareias Street, Athens GR-115 27, Greece Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, 28 Panepistimiou Street, Athens GR-106 79, Greece
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- Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy
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- Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy
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- Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, 'Civic - M.P. Arezzo' Hospital, ASP Ragusa, Italy
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- School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy
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- Dt. for Determinants of Chronic Diseases (DCD), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands Dt. of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands Dt. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom Dt. of Social & Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Samfundet Folkhälsan, Helsinki, Finland
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- Andalusian School of Public Health, Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA. Hospitales Universitarios de Granada/Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
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- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain Department of Epidemiology, Murcia Regional Health Council, Murcia, Spain
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- Public Health Department of Gipuzkoa, Instituto BIO-Donostia, Basque Government, CIBERESP, San Sebastian, Spain
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- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain Navarre Public Health Institute, Pamplona, Spain
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- Unit of Nutrition, Environment and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO-IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Family Medicine Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic & Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Clinical Research Center, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden Department of Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Surgery, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden
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- University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO), Lyon, France
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Møller H, Roswall N, Van Hemelrijck M, Larsen SB, Cuzick J, Holmberg L, Overvad K, Tjønneland A. Prostate cancer incidence, clinical stage and survival in relation to obesity: a prospective cohort study in Denmark. Int J Cancer 2015; 136:1940-7. [PMID: 25264293 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.29238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2014] [Revised: 08/26/2014] [Accepted: 09/18/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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There is no clear link between obesity and prostate cancer incidence but an association has been reported between obesity and fatal prostate cancer. We report on two prospective cohort analyses on (i) the incidence of prostate cancer in relation to obesity in a cohort of men with no previous cancer, and on (ii) the stage distribution and prostate cancer specific mortality in relation to obesity among men with prostate cancer. The "Diet, Cancer and Health" prospective cohort study was established in Denmark in 1993-1997 and accrued 26,944 men aged 50-64 years. Data were extracted on height, weight, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference and body fat percentage. Information on cancer incidence and deaths were obtained by record linkage with the Danish Cancer Register and the Danish Death Register. The incidence rate of prostate cancer was similar or slightly lower in obese men compared with nonobese men, but obese men tended to be diagnosed with more advanced prostate cancer. The proportion of Stage 3-4 cancers was 37% in the lowest BMI quartile and 48% in the highest (p = 0.006). Obese men with prostate cancer had higher prostate cancer specific mortality. The hazard ratio comparing the highest and the lowest quartiles of BMI was 1.48 (95% confidence interval: 1.06-2.05; p-value for trend: 0.002). The association was attenuated but not eliminated by statistical adjustment for stage, and the data are suggestive of a stage-independent causal pathway where prostate cancer in obese men has higher fatality, even in early-stage disease.
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- Henrik Møller
- King's College London, Section of Cancer Epidemiology and Population Health, London, United Kingdom; Centre for Epidemiology, Mathematics and Statistics, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom; Department of Public Health, Section for Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Li Y, Roswall N, Sandin S, Ström P, Adami HO, Weiderpass E. Adherence to a healthy Nordic food index and breast cancer risk: results from a Swedish cohort study. Cancer Causes Control 2015; 26:893-902. [PMID: 25783459 DOI: 10.1007/s10552-015-0564-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2014] [Accepted: 03/13/2015] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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BACKGROUND A healthy Nordic dietary pattern has shown beneficial effects in relation to several chronic diseases. However, no study has evaluated the association between a healthy Nordic food index (HNFI) and risk of breast cancer. METHODS We conducted a prospective cohort study including 44,296 women, aged 29-49 at baseline in 1991-1992, who completed a food frequency questionnaire at baseline, and have been followed up ever since, through the Swedish Cancer Registry and Cause of Death Registry. Each woman was assigned a HNFI score ranging from 0 to 6. We calculated multivariable relative risks (RRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) using Poisson regression models with attained age as the underlying timescale. The association between the HNFI and risk of breast cancer was assessed both overall, by menopausal status and by hormone receptor status. RESULTS A total of 1,464 breast cancer cases were diagnosed during a median follow-up time of 20 years. A higher adherence to the HNFI was not associated with a lower risk of breast cancer overall, nor of varied hormone receptor status, or when we examining premenopausal and postmenopausal women separately. The multivariable RRs (95% CI) for breast cancer per 1-point increment in the HNFI were 1.02 (95% CI 0.98-1.06) for all women, 1.01 (95% CI 0.95-1.08) for premenopausal women, and 1.02 (95% CI 0.97-1.07) for postmenopausal women. CONCLUSION Adherence to a HNFI was not associated with breast cancer incidence in this cohort of relatively young women, regardless of menopausal status or hormone receptor status.
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- Yingjun Li
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, PO Box 281, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden,
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Sanikini H, Dik VK, Siersema PD, Bhoo-Pathy N, Uiterwaal CSPM, Peeters PHM, González CA, Zamora-Ros R, Overvad K, Tjønneland A, Roswall N, Boutron-Ruault MC, Fagherazzi G, Racine A, Kühn T, Katzke V, Boeing H, Trichopoulou A, Trichopoulos D, Lagiou P, Palli D, Grioni S, Vineis P, Tumino R, Panico S, Weiderpass E, Skeie G, Braaten T, Huerta JM, Sánchez-Cantalejo E, Barricarte A, Sonestedt E, Wallstrom P, Nilsson LM, Johansson I, Bradbury KE, Khaw KT, Wareham N, Huybrechts I, Freisling H, Cross AJ, Riboli E, Bueno-de-Mesquita HB. Total, caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee and tea intake and gastric cancer risk: results from the EPIC cohort study. Int J Cancer 2015; 136:E720-30. [PMID: 25236393 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.29223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2014] [Revised: 08/12/2014] [Accepted: 08/15/2014] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Prospective studies examining the association between coffee and tea consumption and gastric cancer risk have shown inconsistent results. We investigated the association between coffee (total, caffeinated and decaffeinated) and tea consumption and the risk of gastric cancer by anatomical site and histological type in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study. Coffee and tea consumption were assessed by dietary questionnaires at baseline. Adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) were calculated using Cox regression models. During 11.6 years of follow up, 683 gastric adenocarcinoma cases were identified among 477,312 participants. We found no significant association between overall gastric cancer risk and consumption of total coffee (HR 1.09, 95%-confidence intervals [CI]: 0.84-1.43; quartile 4 vs. non/quartile 1), caffeinated coffee (HR 1.14, 95%-CI: 0.82-1.59; quartile 4 vs. non/quartile 1), decaffeinated coffee (HR 1.07, 95%-CI: 0.75-1.53; tertile 3 vs. non/tertile 1) and tea (HR 0.81, 95%-CI: 0.59-1.09; quartile 4 vs. non/quartile 1). When stratified by anatomical site, we observed a significant positive association between gastric cardia cancer risk and total coffee consumption per increment of 100 mL/day (HR 1.06, 95%-CI: 1.03-1.11). Similarly, a significant positive association was observed between gastric cardia cancer risk and caffeinated coffee consumption (HR 1.98, 95%-CI: 1.16-3.36, p-trend=0.06; quartile 3 vs. non/quartile 1) and per increment of 100 mL/day (HR 1.09, 95%-CI: 1.04-1.14). In conclusion, consumption of total, caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee and tea is not associated with overall gastric cancer risk. However, total and caffeinated coffee consumption may be associated with an increased risk of gastric cardia cancer. Further prospective studies are needed to rule out chance or confounding.
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- Harinakshi Sanikini
- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), U1018, Environmental Epidemiology of Cancer Team, Villejuif, Paris, France; Univ Paris Sud, UMRS 1018, Villejuif, Paris, France
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Roswall N, Eriksson U, Sandin S, Löf M, Olsen A, Skeie G, Adami HO, Weiderpass E. Adherence to the healthy Nordic food index, dietary composition, and lifestyle among Swedish women. Food Nutr Res 2015; 59:26336. [PMID: 25773303 PMCID: PMC4359984 DOI: 10.3402/fnr.v59.26336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2014] [Revised: 02/02/2015] [Accepted: 02/10/2015] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Background Studies examining diet scores in relation to health outcomes are gaining ground. Thus, control for dietary factors not part of the score, and lifestyle associated with adherence, is required to allow for a causal interpretation of studies on diet scores and health outcomes. Objective The study objective is to describe and investigate dietary composition, micronutrient density, lifestyle, socioeconomic factors, and adherence to the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations across groups defined by their level of adherence to a healthy Nordic food index (HNFI). The paper examines both dietary components included in the HNFI as well as dietary components, which are not part of the HNFI, to get a broad picture of the diet. Design The study is cross-sectional and conducted in the Swedish Women's Lifestyle and Health cohort. We included 45,277 women, aged 29–49 years at baseline (1991–1992). The HNFI was defined by six items: wholegrain bread, oatmeal, apples/pears, cabbages, root vegetables and fish/shellfish, using data from a food frequency questionnaire. Proportions, means and standard deviations were calculated in the entire cohort and by adherence groups. Results Women scoring high on the HNFI had a higher energy intake, compared to low adherers. They had a higher intake of fiber and a higher micronutrient density (components of the HNFI), but also a higher intake of items not included in the HNFI: red/processed meats, sweets, and potatoes. They were on average more physically active and less likely to smoke. Conclusions Adherence to the HNFI was associated with a generally healthier lifestyle and a high intake of health-beneficial components. However, it was also associated with a higher energy intake and a higher intake of foods without proven health benefits. Therefore, future studies on the HNFI and health outcomes should take into account potential confounding of dietary and lifestyle factors associated with the HNFI.
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- Nina Roswall
- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden;
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromsö, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsö, Norway
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromsö, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsö, Norway.,Genetic Epidemiology Group, Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland.,The Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway
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Rohrmann S, Linseisen J, Overvad K, Lund Würtz AM, Roswall N, Tjonneland A, Boutron-Ruault MC, Racine A, Bastide N, Palli D, Agnoli C, Panico S, Tumino R, Sacerdote C, Weikert S, Steffen A, Kühn T, Li K, Khaw KT, Wareham NJ, Bradbury KE, Peppa E, Trichopoulou A, Trichopoulos D, Bueno-de-Mesquita HB, Peeters PHM, Hjartåker A, Skeie G, Weiderpass E, Jakszyn P, Dorronsoro M, Barricarte A, Santiuste de Pablos C, Molina-Montes E, de la Torre RA, Ericson U, Sonestedt E, Johansson M, Ljungberg B, Freisling H, Romieu I, Cross AJ, Vergnaud AC, Riboli E, Boeing H. Meat and fish consumption and the risk of renal cell carcinoma in the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition. Int J Cancer 2015; 136:E423-31. [PMID: 25258006 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.29236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2014] [Revised: 08/20/2014] [Accepted: 08/21/2014] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Renal cell cancer (RCC) incidence varies worldwide with a higher incidence in developed countries and lifestyle is likely to contribute to the development of this disease. We examined whether meat and fish consumption were related to the risk of RCC in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). The analysis included 493,179 EPIC participants, recruited between 1992 and 2000. Until December 2008, 691 RCC cases have been identified. Meat and fish consumption was assessed at baseline using country-specific dietary assessment instruments; 24-hour recalls were applied in an 8% subsample for calibration purposes. Cox proportional hazards regression was used to calculate multivariable-adjusted hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI). Women with a high consumption of red meat (HR = 1.36, 95% CI 1.14-1.62; calibrated, per 50 g/day) and processed meat (HR = 1.78, 95% CI 1.05-3.03; calibrated, per 50 g/day) had a higher risk of RCC, while no association existed in men. For processed meat, the association with RCC incidence was prominent in premenopausal women and was lacking in postmenopausal women (p interaction = 0.02). Neither poultry nor fish consumption were statistically significantly associated with the risk of RCC. The results show a distinct association of red and processed meat consumption with incident RCC in women but not in men. A biological explanation for these findings remains unclear.
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- Sabine Rohrmann
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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Roswall N, Weiderpass E. Alcohol as a risk factor for cancer: existing evidence in a global perspective. J Prev Med Public Health 2015; 48:1-9. [PMID: 25652705 PMCID: PMC4322512 DOI: 10.3961/jpmph.14.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2014] [Accepted: 01/09/2015] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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The purpose of the present review is to give an overview of the association between alcohol intake and the risk of developing cancer. Two large-scale expert reports; the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF)/American Institute of Cancer Research (AICR) report from 2007, including its continuous update project, and the International Agency for Research of Cancer (IARC) monograph from 2012 have extensively reviewed this association in the last decade. We summarize and compare their findings, as well as relate these to the public health impact, with a particular focus on region-specific drinking patterns and disease tendencies. Our findings show that alcohol intake is strongly linked to the risk of developing cancers of the oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, oesophagus, colorectum (in men), and female breast. The two expert reports diverge on the evidence for an association with liver cancer and colorectal cancer in women, which the IARC grades as convincing, but the WCRF/AICR as probable. Despite these discrepancies, there does, however, not seem to be any doubt, that the Population Attributable Fraction of alcohol in relation to cancer is large. As alcohol intake varies largely worldwide, so does, however, also the Population Attributable Fractions, ranging from 10% in Europe to almost 0% in countries where alcohol use is banned. Given the World Health Organization’s prediction, that alcohol intake is increasing, especially in low- and middle-income countries, and steadily high in high-income countries, the need for preventive efforts to curb the number of alcohol-related cancers seems growing, as well as the need for taking a region- and gender-specific approach in both future campaigns as well as future research. The review acknowledges the potential beneficial effects of small doses of alcohol in relation to ischaemic heart disease, but a discussion of this lies without the scope of the present study.
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- Nina Roswall
- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark ; Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Tsilidis KK, Allen NE, Appleby PN, Rohrmann S, Nöthlings U, Arriola L, Gunter MJ, Chajes V, Rinaldi S, Romieu I, Murphy N, Riboli E, Tzoulaki I, Kaaks R, Lukanova A, Boeing H, Pischon T, Dahm CC, Overvad K, Quirós JR, Fonseca-Nunes A, Molina-Montes E, Gavrila Chervase D, Ardanaz E, Khaw KT, Wareham NJ, Roswall N, Tjønneland A, Lagiou P, Trichopoulos D, Trichopoulou A, Palli D, Pala V, Tumino R, Vineis P, Bueno-de-Mesquita HB, Malm J, Orho-Melander M, Johansson M, Stattin P, Travis RC, Key TJ. Diabetes mellitus and risk of prostate cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. Int J Cancer 2015; 136:372-81. [PMID: 24862312 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.28989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2013] [Accepted: 03/17/2014] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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The current epidemiologic evidence suggests that men with type 2 diabetes mellitus may be at lower risk of developing prostate cancer, but little is known about its association with stage and grade of the disease. The association between self-reported diabetes mellitus at recruitment and risk of prostate cancer was examined in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). Among 139,131 eligible men, 4,531 were diagnosed with prostate cancer over an average follow-up of 12 years. Multivariable hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were estimated using Cox proportional hazards models stratified by EPIC-participating center and age at recruitment, and adjusted for education, smoking status, body mass index, waist circumference, and physical activity. In a subset of men without prostate cancer, the cross-sectional association between circulating concentrations of androgens and insulin-like growth factor proteins with diabetes status was also investigated using linear regression models. Compared to men with no diabetes, men with diabetes had a 26% lower risk of prostate cancer (HR, 0.74; 95% CI, 0.63-0.86). There was no evidence that the association differed by stage (p-heterogeneity, 0.19) or grade (p-heterogeneity, 0.48) of the disease, although the numbers were small in some disease subgroups. In a subset of 626 men with hormone measurements, circulating concentrations of androstenedione, total testosterone and insulin-like growth factor binding protein-three were lower in men with diabetes compared to men without diabetes. This large European study has confirmed an inverse association between self-reported diabetes mellitus and subsequent risk of prostate cancer.
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- Konstantinos K Tsilidis
- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece
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de Batlle J, Ferrari P, Chajes V, Park JY, Slimani N, McKenzie F, Overvad K, Roswall N, Tjønneland A, Boutron-Ruault MC, Clavel-Chapelon F, Fagherazzi G, Katzke V, Kaaks R, Bergmann MM, Trichopoulou A, Lagiou P, Trichopoulos D, Palli D, Sieri S, Panico S, Tumino R, Vineis P, Bueno-de-Mesquita HB, Peeters PH, Hjartåker A, Engeset D, Weiderpass E, Sánchez S, Travier N, Sánchez MJ, Amiano P, Chirlaque MD, Barricarte Gurrea A, Khaw KT, Key TJ, Bradbury KE, Ericson U, Sonestedt E, Van Guelpen B, Schneede J, Riboli E, Romieu I. Dietary folate intake and breast cancer risk: European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition. J Natl Cancer Inst 2015; 107:367. [PMID: 25505228 DOI: 10.1093/jnci/dju367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND There is limited evidence on the association between dietary folate intake and the risk of breast cancer (BC) by hormone receptor expression in the tumors. We investigated the relationship between dietary folate and BC risk using data from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). METHODS A total of 367993 women age 35 to 70 years were recruited in 10 European countries. During a median follow-up of 11.5 years, 11575 women with BC were identified. Dietary folate intake was estimated from country-specific dietary questionnaires. Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to quantify the association between dietary variables and BC risk. BC tumors were classified by receptor status. Subgroup analyses were performed by menopausal status and alcohol intake. Intake of other B vitamins was considered. All statistical tests were two-sided. RESULTS A borderline inverse association was observed between dietary folate and BC risk (hazard ratio comparing top vs bottom quintile [HRQ5-Q1] = 0.92, 95% CI = 0.83 to 1.01, P trend = .037). In premenopausal women, we observed a statistically significant trend towards lower risk in estrogen receptor-negative BC (HRQ5-Q1 = 0.66, 95% CI = 0.45 to 0.96, P trend = .042) and progesterone receptor-negative BC (HRQ5-Q1 = 0.70, 95% CI = 0.51 to 0.97, P trend = .021). No associations were found in postmenopausal women. A 14% reduction in BC risk was observed when comparing the highest with the lowest dietary folate tertiles in women having a high (>12 alcoholic drinks/week) alcohol intake (HRT3-T1 = 0.86, 95% CI = 0.75 to 0.98, P interaction = .035). CONCLUSIONS Higher dietary folate intake may be associated with a lower risk of sex hormone receptor-negative BC in premenopausal women.
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- J de Batlle
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - M C Boutron-Ruault
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - F Clavel-Chapelon
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - G Fagherazzi
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - V Katzke
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - R Kaaks
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - M M Bergmann
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - A Trichopoulou
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - P Lagiou
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - D Trichopoulos
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - D Palli
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - S Sieri
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - S Panico
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - R Tumino
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - P Vineis
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - H B Bueno-de-Mesquita
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - P H Peeters
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - A Hjartåker
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - D Engeset
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - E Weiderpass
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - S Sánchez
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - N Travier
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - M J Sánchez
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - P Amiano
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - M D Chirlaque
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - A Barricarte Gurrea
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - K T Khaw
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - T J Key
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - K E Bradbury
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
| | - U Ericson
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (JdB, PF, VC, JYP, NS, FM, IR); Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (KO); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (NR, AT); Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (MCBR, FCC, GF); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (VK, RK); Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany (MMB); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (AT, DT); Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (PL); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PL, DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (PL, DT); Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy (DP); Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy (SSi); Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (SP); Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, "Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy (RT); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (PV, HBBdM, PHP, ER); HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy (PV); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBBdM); Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (PHP); Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical
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Leenders M, Leufkens AM, Siersema PD, van Duijnhoven FJB, Vrieling A, Hulshof PJM, van Gils CH, Overvad K, Roswall N, Kyrø C, Boutron-Ruault MC, Fagerhazzi G, Cadeau C, Kühn T, Johnson T, Boeing H, Aleksandrova K, Trichopoulou A, Klinaki E, Androulidaki A, Palli D, Grioni S, Sacerdote C, Tumino R, Panico S, Bakker MF, Skeie G, Weiderpass E, Jakszyn P, Barricarte A, María Huerta J, Molina-Montes E, Argüelles M, Johansson I, Ljuslinder I, Key TJ, Bradbury KE, Khaw KT, Wareham NJ, Ferrari P, Duarte-Salles T, Jenab M, Gunter MJ, Vergnaud AC, Wark PA, Bueno-de-Mesquita HB. Plasma and dietary carotenoids and vitamins A, C and E and risk of colon and rectal cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. Int J Cancer 2014; 135:2930-9. [PMID: 24771392 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.28938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2013] [Accepted: 02/06/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
Carotenoids and vitamins A, C and E are possibly associated with a reduced colorectal cancer (CRC) risk through antioxidative properties. The association of prediagnostic plasma concentrations and dietary consumption of carotenoids and vitamins A, C and E with the risk of colon and rectal cancer was examined in this case-control study, nested within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study. Plasma concentrations of carotenoids (α- and β-carotene, canthaxanthin, β-cryptoxanthin, lutein, lycopene, zeaxanthin) and vitamins A (retinol), C and E (α-, β- and γ- and δ-tocopherol) and dietary consumption of β-carotene and vitamins A, C and E were determined in 898 colon cancer cases, 501 rectal cancer cases and 1,399 matched controls. Multivariable conditional logistic regression models were performed to estimate incidence rate ratios (IRR) and corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs). An association was observed between higher prediagnostic plasma retinol concentration and a lower risk of colon cancer (IRR for highest quartile = 0.63, 95% CI: 0.46, 0.87, p for trend = 0.01), most notably proximal colon cancer (IRR for highest quartile = 0.46, 95% CI: 0.27, 0.77, p for trend = 0.01). Additionally, inverse associations for dietary β-carotene and dietary vitamins C and E with (distal) colon cancer were observed. Although other associations were suggested, there seems little evidence for a role of these selected compounds in preventing CRC through their antioxidative properties.
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- Max Leenders
- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands; Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
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Roswall N, Freisling H, Bueno-de-Mesquita HB, Ros M, Christensen J, Overvad K, Boutron-Ruault MC, Severi G, Fagherazzi G, Chang-Claude J, Kaaks R, Steffen A, Boeing H, Argüelles M, Agudo A, Sánchez MJ, Chirlaque MD, Barricarte Gurrea A, Amiano P, Wareham N, Khaw KT, Bradbury KE, Trichopoulou A, Papatesta HM, Trichopoulos D, Palli D, Pala V, Tumino R, Sacerdote C, Mattiello A, Peeters PH, Ehrnström R, Brennan P, Ferrari P, Ljungberg B, Norat T, Gunter M, Riboli E, Weiderpass E, Halkjaer J. Anthropometric measures and bladder cancer risk: a prospective study in the EPIC cohort. Int J Cancer 2014; 135:2918-29. [PMID: 24771290 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.28936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2014] [Accepted: 04/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Anthropometric measures have been related to risk of several cancers. For bladder cancer, however, evidence is sparse. Comparability of existing studies is hampered by use of different obesity-measures, inadequate control for smoking, and few female cases. This study examined associations between height, weight, waist and hip circumference, waist-hip ratio, waist-height ratio, body mass index (BMI), recalled weight at age 20 and bladder cancer, and investigated effect modification by age, tumor aggressiveness and smoking. The study was conducted in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort, in 390,878 participants. Associations were calculated using Cox Proportional Hazards Models. During follow-up, 1,391 bladder cancers (1,018 male; 373 female) occurred. Height was unrelated to bladder cancer in both genders. We found a small but significant positive association with weight [1.04 (1.01-1.07) per 5 kilo], BMI [1.05 (1.02-1.08) per 2 units], waist circumference [1.04 (1.01-1.08) per 5 cm], waist-hip ratio (1.07 (1.02-1.13) per 0.05 unit] and waist-height ratio [1.07 (1.01-1.13) per 0.05 unit] in men. Stratification by smoking status confined associations in men to former smokers. In never smokers, we found no significant associations, suggesting residual confounding by smoking. Results did not differ with tumor aggressiveness and age. Residual analyses on BMI/waist circumference showed a significantly higher disease risk with BMI in men (p = 0.01), but no association with waist circumference. In conclusion, in this large study, height was unrelated to bladder cancer, whereas overweight was associated with a slightly higher bladder cancer risk in men. This association may, however, be distorted by residual confounding by smoking.
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- Nina Roswall
- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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